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 |
|---|---|
| consort | associate |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| 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 |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |