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dilemma : predicament noun [countable]
a difficult or unpleasant situation in which you do not know what to do, or you have to make a difficult choice: There is no painless way out of America's current economic predicament.
, strait1 noun [countable]

1 also straits [plural] a narrow passage of water between two areas of land, usually connecting two seas: the Strait of Gibraltar

2 be in dire straits to be in a difficult situation, especially a financial one, that could have very bad or dangerous results: If one of the family is in dire straits, we try to help each other out.