GRE Word List
CRUX
a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question
The meaning of the word crux is a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| cryptic | secret |
| sophist | philosopher |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| dys- | abnormal |
| boor | peasant |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |