RIDDLES Synonyms

• a demanding or stimulating situation

• a call to engage in a contest or fight

• questioning a statement and demanding an explanation

• a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

• a demand by a sentry for a password or identification

• take exception to

• issue a challenge to

• ask for identification

• raise a formal objection in a court of law

• a difficult problem

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

• a difficult problem

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

• a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie

• a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not

• a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

• a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• a game that tests your ingenuity

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide

• an instance of questioning

• the subject matter at issue

• a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

• uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

• a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

• an informal reference to a marriage proposal

• challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

• pose a series of questions to

• pose a question

• conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

• place in doubt or express doubtful speculation

• An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

• A competition in the answering of questions.

• A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

• To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

• To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

• To question closely, to interrogate.

• To instruct by means of a quiz.

• To play with a quiz.

• a worker who teases wool

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• a device for teasing wool

• a difficult problem

• a difficult problem

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

• a difficult problem

• (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected

• spread out; not concentrated in one place

• lacking conciseness

• move outward

• spread or diffuse through

• cause to become widely known

• spread or diffuse through

• fill, soak, or imbue totally

• suffuse with color

• penetrate mutually or be interlocked

• spread or diffuse through

• spread or diffuse through

• pass through

• penetrate mutually or be interlocked

• spread or diffuse through

• a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

• the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

• a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame

• the personnel of the film industry

• a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

• partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

• test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

• examine methodically

• examine in order to test suitability

• project onto a screen for viewing

• prevent from entering

• separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

• protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm