GRE Word List
JUNCTURE
a point of time
The meaning of the word juncture is a point of time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |