GRE Word List
JUNCTURE
a point of time
The meaning of the word juncture is a point of time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| upright | perpendicular |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |