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 |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| apprehend | arrest |