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Word: crux

Definition: essential or main point; Ex. the crux of the problem; ADJ. crucial: of deciding importance


More Vocab Words

::: rendition - rendering; translation; artistic interpretation of a song, etc
::: stratagem - deceptive scheme; clever trick
::: recast - reconstruct (a sentence, story, statue, etc.); fashion again
::: thrash - beat with a whip or flail; defeat utterly; talk about thoroughly in order to find the answer; move wildly or violently; Ex. The fishes thrashed about in the net.
::: incubate - hatch; warm (eggs) with the body to promote hatching; maintain at optimal environment conditions for development; be holding in one's body an infection which is going to develop into a disease; N. incubation; CF. incubation:disease
::: denizen - (animal, person, or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place; regular visitor
::: digression - wandering away from the subject; V. digress
::: lofty - very high
::: mortician - undertaker; CF. death
::: vainglorious - boastful; excessively conceited; N. vainglory: great vanity