What in the correct meaning of the word dilemma? The dilemma tocing economic policy makers was whether to risk increasing the national debt or let the economy fall into a recession. A choice between two undesirable alternatives . A debate or argument between opposite sides. A controversial issue of public policy. A destructive or devastating challenge

a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones

Explanation: example - Deciding where to go for dinner on a first date - Wondering whether or not to make the move to a new city

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.