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13-16 vocab/mystery
vocabulary for Novel/mystery
Question | Answer |
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breakthrough | an advance or discovery that helps solve a crime |
clue | a fact object that helps solve mysteries |
crime | an act committed in violation of the law |
deduce | to infer by logical reasoning |
deduction | collecting the facts and drawing a possible conclusion |
detective | a person who investigates crimes and gathers information |
evidence | someone or something that proves who committed the crime |
hunch | a guess or feeling not based on known facts |
motive | an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way |
mystery | something that is secret and unknown |
plot | the arrangements of incidents in a story |
red herring | a false lead that throws the investigator off track. it is used to divert attention from the basic issue |
setting | the time, place, environment and surrounding circumstances of a story |
sleuth | an investigator or detective |
suspects | people who appear to have a motive to have committed the crime |
suspect | a person who is suspected of a crime |
victim | someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something |
detention | enforced detainment |
parole | conditional release from prison before the full term is up |
intervention | act of coming between to solve a problem |
obligation | duty |
ruckus | noisy disturbance |
specialties | special products |
gizmo | gadget |
hypnotized | put into a trance |