GRE Word List
PREDICAMENT
the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication
The meaning of the word predicament is the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |