| query | You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand as a p_____ .You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand as a puzzle . Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists. She was a puzzle. |
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| word | puzzle |
| full-definition | verb If something puzzles you, you do not understand it and feel confused . My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety. His letter poses a number of puzzling questions. If you puzzle over something, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it. I stayed up nights, puzzling over epic Old English poems in a fog of incomprehension. noun A puzzle is a question, game, or toy which you have to think about carefully in order to answer it correctly or put it together properly. ...a word puzzle. You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand as a puzzle . Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists. She was a puzzle. |
| inflections | puzzlespuzzlingpuzzledpuzzling |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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