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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| steep | lofty |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| enduring | lasting |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |