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 |
|---|---|
| rightful | just |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| onus | burden |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| contagion | a contagious disease |