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e·nig·ma  audio  (-ngm) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable.
  2. A perplexing speech or text; a riddle.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin aenigma, from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai, ainig-, to speak in riddles, from ainos, fable


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