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 |
|---|---|
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| prank | trick |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |