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 |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| lunar | crescent |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| appease | pacify |