Plight
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Danger, risk. That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. A dire or unfortunate situation. Condition; state; — risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight. A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To expose to risk; to pledge. Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony. To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something. To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
Example sentence: The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Betroth
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To promise to give in marriage.