Critical Situations

When a situation gets serious, you need the right words to describe just how serious it is.

This quiz covers imminent, incendiary, intractable, treacherous, and untenable, words used in news reports and crisis discussions when something is dangerous, unstable, or very hard to resolve. They're essential vocabulary for following current events in English.

Pro Tip: intractable means impossible to control or solve; untenable means impossible to defend or maintain.