Object

• mystery: A new website backed by Arts Council England aims to help artists unravel the mystery of pensions.

• riddle: This book seeks to unravel the riddle of legal paradoxes.

• complexity: Where do parents go for some advice on how to start to unravel the complexities of their relationship with their child?

• knot: The children had a long piece of rope and were not allowed to let go as they tried to unravel the knots.

• clue: Can they unravel the ecological clues to safeguard Suffolk's mammals.

Preposition: at

• pace: The Kiwi version has the jumpers attached to a cable, which unravels at a controlled pace.

Modifying Another Word

• rapidly: It was all so different in my day, so it was, " said the rapidly unraveling and emotional former lag.

• finally: An official cover-up of those ties for more than a quarter century is finally unraveling.

• gradually: If we stay put in deed and word our rap will gradually unravel and in time reweave us more deeply into place.

• easily: These are deep waters, but I don't think that Dr. King's repuatation unravels so easily.

Used with why or when

• when: But her neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel when her daughter Elena returns home, angry and unemployed.

• what: If anyone can unravel what 's happening in the bowels of Krondor, he can.

• who: Logic cannot help the Smiths unravel who is who when discussing a family all of whose members are named Bobby Watson.