crux
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:00 am
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.
The twisting agony of it--that he could make capital out of the very crux of all her suffering.
2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.
The twisting agony of it--that he could make capital out of the very crux of all her suffering.