UNRIDDLE

Etymology

Verb

unriddle (third-person singular simple present unriddles, present participle unriddling, simple past and past participle unriddled)

(transitive) To figure out the answer to (a riddle).

(transitive, by extension) To solve (a perplexing problem).

Source: Wiktionary


Un*rid"dle, v. t. & i. Etym: [1st pref. un- + riddle.]

Definition: To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DISPERSION

(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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