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enigma | perspicuous |

As a proper noun enigma

is a german device used during world war ii to encode strategic messages.

As an adjective perspicuous is

clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

enigma

English

(wikipedia enigma)

Alternative forms

* (chiefly archaic)

Noun

(en-noun)enigma'” listed by ' Dictionary.com Unabridged (v1·1)
  • Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
  • A riddle, or a difficult problem.
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    Anagrams

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    perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  • (rare) Transparent; translucent.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

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