[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances:At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.", "a serious state of affairs; crisis:The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.", "the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.", "the act of joining.", "the state of being joined.", "something by which two things are joined.", "Phonetics.a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words asnight-rateandre-seedand absent in such words asnitrateandrecede.Compare close juncture close juncture, open juncture open juncture, terminal juncture terminal juncture.the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural occurs.", "a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words asnight-rateandre-seedand absent in such words asnitrateandrecede.Compare close juncture close juncture, open juncture open juncture, terminal juncture terminal juncture.", "the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural occurs."]}]