Today's Word "quagmire"
Published in Vocabulary
quagmire \KWAG-myr; KWOG-\ (noun) - 1 : Soft, wet, miry land that shakes or yields under the feet. 2 : A difficult or precarious position or situation; a predicament.
"Over the course of several months, Franklin's opponent Slowly and inevitably drew him into a quagmire of plot and counterplot."
Quagmire is from quag, a dialectical variant of quake (from Old English cwacian) + mire, from Old Norse myrr, "a swamp."
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