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| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brain-teaser |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, charade, complexity, complication, confusion, conundrum, cryptogram, dilemma, distraction, doubt, embarrassment, enigma, entanglement, intricacy, labyrinth, maze, mystery, plight, poser, predicament, problem, puzzle, quandary, question, stickler*, strait, twister*, brain-twister, closed book, knotty question, mind-boggler, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, rebus, sixty-four dollar question, stumper, teaser, tough nut to crack, tough proposition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perforate, permeate |
| Synonyms: | bore, corrupt, damage, impair, infest, mar, pervade, pierce, pit, puncture, spoil, honeycomb, pepper |
| Main Entry: | conundrum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle |
| Synonyms: | enigma, mystery, poser*, problem, riddle, why*, brain-teaser, closed book, mystification, puzzlement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enigma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mystery |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, cliffhanger, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, knot*, parable, problem, puzzle, question, riddle, secret, stickler, twister, why*, Gordian knot, grabber, mind-boggler, mind-twister, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, puzzler, question mark, sixty-four dollar question, sphinx, sticker, stumper, teaser, tough nut to crack |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | labyrinth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maze, complexity |
| Synonyms: | coil, complication, convolution, entanglement, intricacy, jungle, knot, mesh, morass, problem, puzzle, riddle, snarl, tangle, web, perplexity, skein |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
| Synonyms: | charade, cliffhanger*, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, occult, oracle, poser, problem, question, riddle, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question*, stickler, subtlety, twister, why*, abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, chiller, closed book, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stumper, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, whodunit |
| Antonyms: | known, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take out residue; remove impurities |
| Synonyms: | analyze, clean, colander, comb, drain, evaluate, examine, explore, fathom, filter, go into, go through, grade, inquire, investigate, look into, pan, part, probe, prospect, purify, riddle, screen, scrutinize, search, separate, sieve, size, sort, strain, winnow, delve into, dig into, pore over |
| Notes: | a selective or purifying process can be called a sieve - and sift means 'to pass through a sieve' |
| Antonyms: | put in |
| Main Entry: | sort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place in order |
| Synonyms: | arrange, assort, catalogue, categorize, choose, class, classify, comb, cull, distribute, divide, file, grade, group, order, peg, pick, pigeonhole*, rank, riddle, screen, select, separate, sift, systematize, tab, winnow, button down, put down as, put down for, put in order, put in shape, put to rights, size up, typecast |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drill hole |
| Synonyms: | burrow, mine, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pit, prick, punch, puncture, riddle, sink, tunnel, gouge out, ream |
| Main Entry: | puncture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | poke hole in |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, deflate, drill, go down, knife, lacerate, lance, nick, open, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, riddle, rupture, cut through, go flat |
| Antonyms: | close, sew |
| Main Entry: | problem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, question |
| Synonyms: | bugaboo*, conundrum, enigma, example, illustration, intricacy, mystery, poser*, query, riddle, stickler, twister, brainteaser, cliff-hanger, grabber, mind-boggler, puzzler, sixty-four thousand dollar question, stumper, teaser |
| Antonyms: | solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | examine and choose |
| Synonyms: | cull, eliminate, evaluate, extract, filter, gauge, grade, process, riddle, scan, select, separate, sieve, sift, sort, winnow, pick out |
| Main Entry: | tap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce to drain |
| Synonyms: | bleed, bore, broach, draft, drain, draw, draw out, drill, empty, lance, milk, mine, open, penetrate, perforate, pump, riddle, siphon, spear, spike, stab, use, utilize, draw forth, draw off, unplug, unstopper |
| Main Entry: | poser |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | mystery |
| Synonyms: | conundrum, enigma, problem, puzzle, question, riddle, perplexity |
| Main Entry: | stickler |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | puzzle |
| Synonyms: | enigma, mystery, paradox, riddle, twister, stumper, teaser |
| Main Entry: | strain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | filter |
| Synonyms: | exude, percolate, purify, refine, riddle, screen, seep, separate, sieve, sift |
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