Term: quicksand: a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: abrasiveness: the quality of being sharply disagreeable
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: tennis coach: a coach of tennis players
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: agoraphobia: a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place)
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: silt: mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: alarm: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: latent content: (psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: white rocket: from Mediterranean region; a naturalized weed throughout southern Europe
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: abstainer: a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: amorphous shape: an ill-defined or arbitrary shape
Broader: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty | Unrelated: proprioception: the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts