Riddle vs Puzzlement - What's the difference?
riddle | puzzlement |
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
To put something through a .
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To fill with holes like a .
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment
A puzzle.
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As a proper noun riddle
is .As a noun puzzlement is
the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.riddle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* enigma, conundrum, brain-teaserDerived terms
* riddler * riddle stick * a riddle wrapped up in an enigmaVerb
(riddl)- Riddle me this'', meaning ''Answer the following question.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(riddl)- You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
- Your argument is riddled with errors.
Anagrams
* (l)puzzlement
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