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conundrum a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the …

panacea a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all. an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea. an ancient Greek goddess of healing. Source: dictionary.reference.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/panacea