enigma
noun/ɪˈnɪɡmə/
Frequency rank: #10,168 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Something mysterious or difficult to understand; a puzzle.
Example sentence
The disappearance of the explorer remained a lasting enigma to historians for decades.
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