Recaps unusual predicament (6)
I believe the answer is:
scrape
'predicament' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'recaps unusual' is the wordplay.
'unusual' indicates an anagram.
'recaps' with letters rearranged gives 'SCRAPE'.
(Other definitions for scrape that I've seen before include "Difficult situation; graze" , "Make clean or smooth by passing hard edge across" , "pickle!" , "Thinly-spread butter" , "Graze - awkward predicament" .)