08 April 2009

A Word With Moshammer's Ghost

crux
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin cruc-, crux cross, torture
Date: 1718
1: a puzzling or difficult problem: an unsolved question; "So dig this big crux..."
2: an essential point requiring resolution
3: a main or central feature (as of an argument); "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe..."
Hotcha! Hank

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