Entry Word: predicament

Function: noun

Meaning: a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <if you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldnʼt be in this predicament>

Synonyms corner, fix, hole, jam, pickle, spot

Related Words difficulty, dilemma, hot water, pinch, plight, quagmire, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, impasse, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait