Word of the day: JOSTLE

Jostle:  colisão, abalroamento, choque, encontro, empurrão, solavanco,  conflito, empurrar, apertar, acotovelar, colidir, abalroar, chocar

Synonyms: bore, bull, bulldoze, crash, elbow, jam, muscle, push, shoulder, squeeze

“Everyone in the crowd was jostling each other trying to get a better view.”

<”Everyone glared at the man who jostled to the front of the line.”  (www.merriam-webster.com)

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.”