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 |
|---|---|
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| raspy | harsh |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |