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 |
|---|---|
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| retrench | cut down |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| materialism | a 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 |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |