quagmire
I
noun
complication, crisis, critical situation, dead end, deadlock, difficulty, dilemma, distress, emergency, entanglement, exigency, imbroglio, impasse, involvement, mess, misfortune, muddle, nonplus, perplexity, pinch, plight, predicament, problem, quandary, scrape, spot, state, strait, tight situation, trial, tribulation, trouble
II
index
impasse, pitfall, plight, quandary,
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006