Friday, August 5, 2016

CRUX

WORD: CRUX

MEANING:
1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.
3. The most difficult portion of an ascent in rock climbing or mountaineering.
4. root, bottom, heart, core

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The story revolves around India's top batsman who goes missing the Middle East just before the final match between India and Pakistan. How two cops go for a 36-hour manhunt forms the crux of the film.

PRONOUNCE:
crux - क्रक्स

LINK: CRUX

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