imbroglio
C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
The minister resigned rather than be dragged further into the financial imbroglio.
Business noun
A confused, complicated, and embarrassing situation or dispute.
The boardroom imbroglio over succession dragged three law firms into the fray.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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