GRE Word List

JUNCTURE

a point of time

The meaning of the word juncture is a point of time.

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WordMeaning
impartialnot partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally
prepossessingcreating prejudice
smudgeto make a smudge on
prudea person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
axioma statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate
oscillateto swing backward and forward like a pendulum
panaceaa remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
materialisma theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter
largessliberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior
sluicean artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow