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 |
|---|---|
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |