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 |
|---|---|
| curator | a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibits |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| addle | rotten |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| dire | exciting horror |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |