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Rank | Letters | Answer | Clue | |
1 | 99% | 6 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 28% | 10 | Inscrutable | |
3 | 28% | 15 | Inscrutable nature of Humpty Dumpty's vocabulary | |
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We think the answer is "SPHINX" which means:
- noun
- • (greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of typhon
- • An inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
- • One of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient egyptians verb
- • To decorate with sphinxes
- • To adopt the posture of the sphinx.
- • To be inscrutable, often through silence
- • To make one guess at the unknowable
- • To befuddle
- • For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening
An example sentence would be:
- • "The ancient egyptians built many impressive sphinx statues."
- • "The sphinx is often used as a symbol of mystery and enigma."
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