- Difficult question - Puzzling question - Riddle - Word riddle - A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic
resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which
the answer is or involves a pun. - A question to which only a conjectural answer can be
made.
- Explain - Interpret - Set forth in detail - To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. - To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of
obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a
word, a meaning, or a riddle.
- A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a
chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its
letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word
chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.