This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
imbroglio
Pronounced: (im-BRO-lee-oh)
Noun:
1. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
2. a very embarrassing misunderstanding
From Vocabulary.com: “Although an imbroglio is a tangled situation or a messy complicated misunderstanding, its history is just the opposite, clear as a bell. Imbroglio is just a borrowed word from Italian meaning ‘entanglement.’ ”
Example:
“We had a real imbroglio on our hands when the woman the seller was having an affair with turned up at the open house.”
