1) Anything soft or flabby 2) Boggy area 3) Boggy ground 4) Mire 5) Morass 6) Peat bog 7) Precarious predicament 8) Quag 9) Scrape hard to escape 10) Serious predicament 11) Soft boggy area 12) Sticky situation 1) Bog 2) Fen 3) Marsh 4) Mess 5) Mire 6) Morass 7) Quag 8) Snarl 9) Swamp 
• (n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
Quag'mire` noun [ Quake + mire .] Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. 'A spot surrounded by quagmires , which rendered it difficult of access.' Palfrey. Syn. -- Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough.
an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog. · a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness. · anything soft or flabby.
[SAT terms] a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot[Intelligent words] a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot