quagmire
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quag·mire (kwag′mīr′, kwäg′-)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
quagmire
n.
Swamp
Dilemma
perplexity, entanglement, quandary, morass; see difficulty 1, 2, predicament.
Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preposition: of
- mud: Both directions have given at best a handful of gems in a quagmire of mud.
Possessives
- word: Answer: See #2 Reply: Does the word ' quagmire ' ring a bell?
Converse of object
- become: Aintree can dry out quickly or become a quagmire with heavy rain on watered ground.
Adjective modifier
- bureaucratic: In the increasingly bureaucratic quagmire in which we live, an up to date will should be everyone's number one priority.
Preposition: in
- post: Anyhow, CWV warrior looks at Christianity's cultural mandate and Church leadership in the postmodern relativistic quagmire in this post.
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