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puzzle out something

to study something in order to understand it. The reader shouldn't have to puzzle out what the writer means..

puzzle over something

to give a lot of attention and thought to something. I puzzled over those words, trying to understand their hidden message.

Related vocabulary: tease out something

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puzzle
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