juncture, n. 1. point, point in time, period, stage; time, moment, minute, hour, day, season; occasion, advent; circumstance, occurrence, event, incident; contingency, eventuality.
2. crisis, crux, crunch; crossroads, turning point, critical moment or point, crucial moment, critical juncture, moment of truth, zero hour; emergency, exigency; predicament, plight, dilemma, quandary, strait, extremity; pinch, rub, scrape, squeeze, push, Inf. hole, Inf. clutch.
3. junction, intersection. See - junction (def. 3).
4. unification, accouplement, joinder. See - junction (def. 1).
5. union, association. See - junction (def. 2).
6. joint, joiner, articulation. See - junction (def. 4).
jungle, n. 1. forest, timberland, tropical or rain forest, wildwood, woods, wilderness, wilds, the bush, Inf. the brush.
2. jumble, heap, mass, agglomeration, bunch, mess, huddle, pile; tangle, tumble, disarray, chaos, confusion; hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mishmash, farrago, gallimaufry, hash, confused mixture or medley.
3. inner city, Inf. asphalt jungle, inner-city school, blackboard jungle.
4. law of the jungle survival of the fittest, might makes right, law of club and fang; dog-eat-dog, each man for himself, cutthroat competition; brute force, Hobbesian world.
junior, adj. 1. younger, Law. puisne, inferior, subordinate, subaltern, lower; lesser, minor, secondary.
-n. 2. subordinate, subaltern, inferior, underling.
junk, n. 1. trash, litter, garbage, rubbish, riffraff, Brit. Dial, raff, chaff, crap, Sl. dreck, Sl. schlock, trumpery; refuse, Dial, culch, waste, leavings, leftovers, scraps, sweepings; fragments, remnants, fag ends, odd bits, bits and pieces, odds and ends, truck; castoffs, rags, tatters, castaways, rejects, discards; piece of junk, trifle, trinket, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble.
-v. 2. Informal, throw out or away, discard, dis pose of, get rid of, Inf. trash, Sl. can, Sl. put in file 13 or 17, Sl. put in the round or circular file.
-adj. 3. trashy, Sl. junky, Sl. crappy, worthless, Inf. no-good; cheap, shoddy, shabby, poor, inferior, second-class, second-rate.
junket, n. 1. custard, blancmange, pudding, tapioca pudding.
2. excursion, picnic, frolic, spree, outing; drive, ride, airing, walk, stroll, hike, trek; expedition, journey, trip, voyage, tour, sail, cruise, pleasure cruise.