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 |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| blackball | to vote against |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |