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 |
|---|---|
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |