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 |
|---|---|
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| espouse | marry |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |