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Noun: quandary  kwón-d(u-)ree
  1. A situation requiring a choice between equally unfavourable or mutually exclusive options
    "The manager faced a quandary in choosing which employee to promote";
    - dilemma
     
  2. A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
    "finds himself in a most awkward quandary";
    - predicament, plight

Derived forms: quandaries

Type of: difficultness, difficulty, perplexity

Encyclopedia: Quandary, New South Wales