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mystery
noun as in puzzle, secret
Strong matches
abstruseness, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, grabber, inscrutability, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stickler, stumper, teaser, twister, whodunit, why
Example Sentences
“No rational trader would take that trade. Yet we wonder why labor force participation lags. It’s not a mystery. It’s math.”
Until The Gambian government confirmed his presence, his whereabouts had remained a mystery although there was speculation that he had fled to another country in the region.
The game itself was inspired by Anthony Pratt's evenings playing piano in grand country hotels, where murder mystery games were a regular form of entertainment.
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Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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