| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, scrape, soup, trouble. Informal : bind, pickle, spot. See EASY. 2. A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, slough1, swamp, swampland, wetland. See DRY.
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