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mystery
noun as in puzzle, secret
Strong matches
abstruseness, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, grabber, inscrutability, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, puzzlement, rebus, rune, sphinx, stickler, stumper, teaser, twister, whodunit, why
Example Sentences
But police were unable to trace the key to a precise address, and her identity remained a mystery for two decades.
Every environment suggests or shapes the stories that are set there; even were the plots identical, a mystery set in Amarillo, for example, would play differently than one set in Duluth or Lafayette.
He might also have done something with mystery writer Ruth Ware’s “The Woman in Cabin 10,” other than moving “The Lady Vanishes” from a train to a boat and then going quite gleefully overboard.
But during an event to promote their new book Jones and Corden revealed that a scene shedding light on the mystery was actually filmed.
The cause of fume events isn’t a mystery.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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