Today's Word "Imbroglio"
Published in Vocabulary
imbroglio \im-BROL-yo\ (noun) - A confused tangle or mess; an intricately woven plot or set of circumstances; an embroilment.
"Clinton's presidency was muddled by an imbroglio with a White House intern."
From Italian imbroglio "entanglement." The related verb "embroil" comes either from Italian imbrogliare "to tangle, confuse" or French embrouiller "to tangle, confuse," probably by folk etymology (confusion with native words) with English embroil, originally meaning "to burn up.
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