(n.) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.
(n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(2) The role of growth hormone (GH) and the related placental lactogens in implantation and subsequent embryonic and fetal development is an enigma.
(3) The exact association between psoriasis and arthritis remains an enigma.
(4) And then there is the great enigma of that involuntary separation inflicted by the death of those without whom we would never have wanted to live.
(5) An apparent enigma during platelet aggregation is that increased glycogenolysis occurs despite a fall in cyclic AMP levels; Activation by a classical cascade is therefore unlikely, and an alternative stimulus for phosphorylase a formation was sought.
(6) This triad is currently an enigma in the field of internal medicine.
(7) Rectal carcinoma remains an enigma to surgical and medical oncologists.
(8) Most of the known central actions of angiotensin II, for example the regulation of blood pressure and of electrolyte and water balance, seem to be mediated by the AT1 receptor, while the role of the AT2 receptor is still an enigma.
(9) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
(10) We believe that the "missing pathway" for factor XI activation remains an enigma that warrants further investigation.
(11) He, of course, disclaimed his commitment, telling an American admirer that he was "a person who prefers life to art, and who knows it is a far finer thing to be in love…" The record of his creativity suggests the opposite, only adding to the aura of enigma that still surrounds him.
(12) Against this background the present study was performed, and it has been shown that the resolution to the enigma is that there are two different populations of bipolar cells in the rat visual cortex.
(13) The biologic background to the clinical behavior of these metastasizing tumors remains an enigma.
(14) The author argues that the similarity of the Bushman trance state, kia and that of drug-induced altered states of consciousness has been paid too little attention in the research, and that an enigma currently exists with regard to the degree to which plant drugs may have influenced the !Kung trance phenomenon and healing beliefs.
(15) In many ways the problem of diaphragmatic hernia is as much of an enigma to today's physician-scientist as it was to Bochdalek in the nineteenth century.
(16) The treatment of keloids continues to be an enigma to the surgeon and the patient as well.
(17) And we need to declare war on them.” The rhetoric injected renewed urgency into the effort to unlock the enigma of a couple who had lived quietly and privately with their six-month-old daughter.
(18) Facial palsy is a distressing nonfatal disorder that creates an emotional crisis for the patient and often a therapeutic enigma for the physician.
(19) The function of the third one called the tissue type is still an enigma.
(20) A variety of pharmacologic manipulations were employed to help solve this enigma.
Riddle
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
(v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(4) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
(7) I just think of when I dressed Tom and brushed his hair when his remains were returned to me, his body riddled with bullet holes.
(8) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
(9) But it was not smart to tell Jemima Khan that the new-look Tory party was "riddled with gays".
(10) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
(11) The response of the authorities is riddled with contradictions.
(12) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(13) The dog shit – once warm, then frozen hard, and currently melting in the sun into pools of bacteria-riddled goop – and the used condoms and the defrosting vomit, the artifact of what some drunken bros ate on a wild February night preserved for the bottom of my shoe many weeks later.
(14) Police have carried out a series of operations against the Russian mafia and its money-laundering operations in Spain's corruption-riddled property sector over the past four years.
(15) She’s riddled with guilt now she sees that nothing has changed.
(16) The study reveals that while general awareness of AIDS is fairly good, detailed knowledge is riddled with misconceptions and confusion.
(17) Quite why Scotland Yard should behave like this remains unproved – another riddle waiting to be solved.
(18) Narendra Modi’s India, while growing quickly, remains riddled with uninvestigated corruption scandals .
(19) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(20) The more serious riddle for the government is: how on earth did this policy get through in the first place?