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Word: Predicament
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (in predicament (sense 2)): from late Latin praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Greek katēgoria ‘category’), from Latin praedicare (see predicate). From the sense ‘category’ arose the sense ‘state of being, condition’; hence ‘unpleasant situation’
prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt
a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
Short Definition:difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
Examples:- the club's financial predicament
(in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten ‘categories’, often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion.
Short Definition:(in Aristotelian logic) each of ten 'categories', often listed as
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