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 |
|---|---|
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |