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noun • 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 | ||||||||
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adjective satellite • extremely intricate; usually in phrase `Gordian knot' | ||||||||
28% | 13 | A pattern in which the solution to a problem creates another problem, leading back to the original problem | ||||||
noun • one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first • an argument that assumes that which is to be proved | ||||||||
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