quandary
KWON-duh-reenounMeaning a state of not knowing what to do
Memory hook QUAN-DARY: WANDERING, not knowing what to do. Pip has one dollar to spend, and he wanders up and down the toy store, back and forth, unable to choose. He is in a quandary.
Invited to two parties on the same night, Rosa was in a quandary.
In context Lost on the trail as the sun went down, the hikers were in a quandary: should they keep walking in the dark or camp where they were and wait for morning?
Similar predicament, dilemma, plight, uncertainty
Opposite certainty, confidence
Of uncertain origin; it first appears in English in the 1500s.