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Meaning of vexata quaestio | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.

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Examples

“On entering upon this question, he states it to be one of great difficulty—a vexata quaestio as it were, and one which had at all times much divided, and at the time he wrote, still continued to divide the opinions of great jurists.”
“It may actually boil down to the vexata quaestio of how different must language varieties become in order to be considered independent.”
European intervention in the social sphereand annexed questions such as why, to what extent and in what wayhas long been a vexata quaestio.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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