adversity conflagration confounding cryptic debacle

enigma labyrinth precarious quandary turbulence turmoil

1) The peace treaty at last promised to resolve the perpetual …conflagration…………. between
the two belligerent nation-states.
One of the major …conflagration……………… in London went down in history by the name of
The Great Fire of London: it consumed 13,200 houses and 87 parish churches within four single
days.
2) The global economy has been in a debacle…………… for some years now without any sign
of recovering.
3) The philosopher David Hume comments on man’s incapacity to access Truth as follows: “the
whole is a riddle, an…enigma…….., and inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of
judgement appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject”
4) Masashi’s Naruto can be regarded as a bildungsroman: the eponymous protagonist in the
manga grows from innocence to maturity by learning to face the harsh …adversity……….. of
life.
5) Some Westerners experience cultural shock when they visit Vietnam for the first time – The
…labyrinth………… of social customs and rules there is too much for them to learn and
appreciate in a short time.
6) The current situation between North and South Korea is quite …precarious………….. –
Although there does not seem to be any eminent total war, the situation can worsen at any
instance.
7) Always talking in riddles, Gandalf sometimes irks Gimli with his …cryptic…………..
remarks –The dwarf seems to prefer a clear statement to an enigmatic one.
8) The investigators found the murder case ………confounding………… : all the clues did not
seem to add up; the more they scrutinised the case, the more perplexed they became.
9) After the Civil War, the United States experienced a period of political …turmoil…………..
that would take years to recover from.
10) Critics were ruthless at their reviews of his new novel, branding it “an individual fiasco of a
lifetime, an artistic turbulence…………. of the new century”.
11) In Pakula’s Sophie’s Choice, Sophie is put in a …quandary………… by the Nazi official in
which she has to choose either of her children to send to the extermination camp – The incident
will haunt her throughout the life, lead to her suicide, and also give birth to the well-known
phrase “Sophie’s choice”.