Embroil
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
Tangle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a tangled twisted massa complicated or confused state or conditionan argument, conflict, dispute, or fightA region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to become mixed together or intertwinedto be forced into some kind of situationto enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fightto mix together or intertwineto catch and hold
Example sentence: Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.