States and conditions
Synonyms for juncture
The synonym for juncture recorded in this bank is crossroads, in the sense "a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for juncture
- crossroadsnoun, in the sense "a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and juncture carries one sense so far.
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
The country had reached a juncture where change was unavoidable.
The true synonym
crossroads
Same sentence, swapped: The country had reached a crossroads where change was unavoidable.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- articulation
- occasion
- slump
Where juncture turns up in the game
juncture is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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