puzzle vs rattle

puzzle

verb
  • To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation. 

  • To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. 

  • To make intricate; to entangle. 

noun
  • Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. 

  • A riddle. 

  • The state of being puzzled; perplexity. 

  • A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. 

  • A jigsaw puzzle. 

  • A crossword puzzle. 

rattle

verb
  • To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve. 

  • To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away. 

  • To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking. 

  • To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering. 

  • To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking. 

noun
  • The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound. 

  • A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle. 

  • A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another. 

  • A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound. 

  • A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. 

  • A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container. 

  • Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind. 

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