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 |
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| prong | fork |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| contrive | devise |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |