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.
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| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |