conundrum

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noun

Plural noun:

conundrumsconundra

1.
A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
Đồng nghĩa: brain-teaser, enigma, puzzle, riddle
2.
A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
2004, Martha Stewart, statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison And while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum, a problem of monumental, to me, proportions.
Đồng nghĩa: dilemma, Catch-22, dilemma, Hobson's choice, Morton's fork, no-win situation, quandary, Sophie's choice

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brain-teaserenigma puzzle riddle dilemmaCatch-22Hobson's choiceMorton's forkno-win situationquandarySophie's choicecrux

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A word of origin with several variants, gaining popularity for its burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as hocus-pocus or panjandrum. If there is more to its origin than a nonce coinage, Anatoly Liberman suggests the best theory is that connecting it with the Conimbricenses, 16th c.