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Enigma
01
the quality of being very challenging to explain or understand
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
enigmas
Examples
She always had an air of mystery around her, making her an enigma to even her closest friends.
02
a puzzling or mysterious issue or situation
Examples
The coded letter from the spy was an enigma, and they needed their best cryptographer to decipher it.
Lexical Tree
enigmatic
enigma
