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 |
|---|---|
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |