Word of the day: Predicament

Predicament:  apuro, situação desagradável ou difícil
"in a pretty predicament": num apuro tremendo

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

“If you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldn't be in this predicament.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

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word of the day: Predicament

Predicament: situação desagradável ou difícil, apuro

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

“The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.”

“I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

“The captain of archers fidgeted and coughed and rolled his eyes at his men, as if such cupidity and dishonor were an inevitable but minor aspect of the human predicament …” (Michael Chabon, New York Times Magazine, 6 May 2007}

Obs.:” in a pretty predicament”: “ num apuro tremendo.”    

Word of the day: Predicament

Predicament: situação desagradável ou difícil, apuro, impasse 

synonyms: adverse circumstances, vicissitude, affliction, urgent need, annoyance (http://www.synonyms360.com)

 " We share the same predicament of a physically degraded planet; we are bound together…"

Newsweek: December 05, 2011