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 |
|---|---|
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |