The difference between Conundrum and Riddle
When used as nouns, conundrum means a difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer, whereas riddle means a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Riddle is also verb with the meaning: to speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
check bellow for the other definitions of Conundrum and Riddle
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Conundrum as a noun:
A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
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Conundrum as a noun:
A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
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Riddle as a noun:
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Examples:
"synonyms: enigma conundrum brain-teaser"
"Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"
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Riddle as a noun:
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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Riddle as a verb:
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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Riddle as a verb (transitive):
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Examples:
"'Riddle me this."
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Riddle as a noun:
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
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Riddle as a noun:
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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Riddle as a verb:
To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
Examples:
"You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road."
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Riddle as a verb:
To fill with holes like a riddle.
Examples:
"The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets."
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Riddle as a verb:
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Examples:
"Your argument is riddled with errors."
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Riddle as a noun (obsolete):
A curtain; bed-curtain
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Riddle as a noun (religious):
One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
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Riddle as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To plait