S: (n) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish (informal terms for a difficult situation) "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
S: (n) difficulty (a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome) "grappling with financial difficulties"
S: (n) condition, status (a state at a particular time) "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)