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rid·dle
 riddle
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A riddle is a puzzling, tricky, and often funny question. People ask a riddle as a game or as a test of someone's thinking skills.
Here is a riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows? The answer: A mushroom!Petra owns a book filled with jokes and riddles. |
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Any question, problem, person, or thing that is hard to figure out is sometimes called a "riddle."
How the prisoner was able to escape remains a riddle.That really quiet boy in our class is a riddle. Nobody knows much about him.- synonyms:
- mystery, puzzle
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mystery, problem, puzzle |
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