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Conundrum   /kənˈəndrəm/   Listen
noun
Conundrum  n.  
1.
A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. "Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint."
2.
A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. "Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that?"





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"Conundrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... good-natured, is all this! How delightful is that notion of the pleasant Eastern people about knowledge, where the height of science is made to consist in the answering of riddles! and all the mathematicians and magicians bring their great beards to bear on a conundrum! ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
... clay, sand, and loam in the desired proportions; and while some of them are better than others both soil and temperature are such that cotton can be grown in them. Given these two assets the rest of the conundrum is ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
... He came here long ago; But, before that, he'd been born somewhere: The conundrum started first, right there. Little shaver—afore he knew his name Or the place from whereabouts he came— On a wagon-train the Apaches caught him. Killed the old folks! But this cus'—they brought him Safe away from fire an' knife an' arrows. So'thin' 'bout him must have touched their ...
— Dreams and Days: Poems • George Parsons Lathrop
... a decent conundrum," retorted Jud, with dignity, for his father had served as a volunteer soldier in the ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... the standing conundrum with all the women. They will not accept Ethel Newcome even. Perhaps we shall have to admit that Thackeray ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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