SAT vocabulary
Quagmire
A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot; an awkward, complicated, or hazardous situation
Example
"The company found itself in a financial quagmire after the failed product launch."
Etymology
From Middle English quaq-mire, from quag 'to shake' + mire 'bog, swamp'.
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