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 |
|---|---|
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| residual | remainder |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |