GRE Word List
JUNCTURE
a point of time
The meaning of the word juncture is a point of time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| refurbish | to brighten or freshen up : renovate |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |