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Word of the Day : January 7, 2023
conundrum \kuh-NUN-drum\ noun
What It Means
A conundrum is a problem that is difficult, confusing, or intricate. Conundrum can also refer to a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun.
// Ideally, students in an ethics class will really wrestle with moral conundrums.
// Her answer to the conundrum "why didn't the lost hikers starve in the desert?" was "because of the sand which is there."
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