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Study the word PREDICAMENT: (Source) A predicament is a bad, difficult situation. When you're in a predicament, you have a problem, and you don't know how to solve it—so you're sad, mad, worried, frustrated, or confused. You may even be in serious danger. Let's say, after you borrowed your friend's very expensive violin, you accidentally broke it. You don't have enough money to fix it or replace it. What do you do? You're in a predicament! (Source) Now let's say you're a farmer, and bugs are eating your crops. You use chemicals to kill the bugs, which works... until the chemicals train the bugs to grow stronger, more numerous, and more resistant! What will you do now? How will you get out of this predicament? Will your crops survive? (Source) On the show Parks and Recreation, Ron gets into a predicament. His assistant, April, has accidentally scheduled him to meet with 94 people, individually, in a single day. It isn't even possible! Plus, he's not even prepared for one meeting, much less 94! What an awkward predicament! (Source) In the book The Hunger Games, Katniss is eleven years old, and she and her younger sister are slowly starving to death. They have no money for food. Their mom is crippled by depression, won't get out of bed, and can't take care of them. If Katniss tells anyone about their predicament, the government will take her and her sister away from their mom forever. Katniss is tough, though, and smart. She finds a way out of her predicament. (Source) Predicaments are awful! Whether they're serious and life-threatening, or just awkward and uncomfortable, they're unpleasant to be in and difficult to get out of.   Make a flash card: You can write your own definition and choose your own picture, or copy mine. Term Definition Picture predicament an issue or problem that's stressful, dangerous, complicated, or not easily fixed   Write your own sentence! You can use either of the two ideas I'll suggest, or you can invent your own. Include as much detail as you can! (Source)   Write a sentence with the word PREDICAMENT: Remember: when you're in a predicament, things are going very badly for you, and you feel like you have no way to fix them or make things better. Idea 1: "When everyone was expecting me to (do something scary or difficult), I saw no way out of my predicament." Idea 2: "After (things got much worse for me somehow), I resolved to find my way out of my predicament." You can type in here. When you're done, copy and paste your sentence wherever you'd like it to go.