The situation was unpleasant, and I did not know how to [___] myself from it.

“Extricate” means to free or remove someone from a difficult situation. The sentence says the situation was unpleasant and the speaker wanted to get free from it, so “extricate myself” fits. “Intricate” means complicated or detailed, and it does not work with “myself from it.”

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