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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| welter | writhe |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
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| dolt | a stupid person |