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Now for your regularly scheduled Monday Mystery post.
Let's see how well you know your mystery words.
1. alibi -
2. breakthrough -
3. clue -
4. crime -
5. deduce-
6. detective -
7. evidence -
8. hunch -
9. motive -
10. mystery -
11. plot -
12. purloin -
13. red herring -
14. setting -
15. sleuth -
16. suspect -
17. victim -
18. witness -
a) a person who investigates crimes and gathers information
b) an excuse that an accused person uses to show that he/she was somewhere else c) than at the scene of the crime
d) a person who is suspected of a crime
e) something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue
f) an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way
g) an act committed in violation of the law
h) another name for a detective
i) the arrangement of incidents in a story
j) something, such as a witness statement or object that is used as proof in a crime
k) a guess or feeling not based on known facts
l) to steal or filch
m) the time, place, environment and surrounding circumstances of a story
n) something that is secret and unknown
o) a fact or object that helps to solve mysteries
p) someone who is harmed or suffers some loss
q) someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something
r) to infer by logical reasoning
s) an advance or discovery that helps solve a crime
Leave your answers and I'll pick a winner for a mystery prize.
source: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002344/Vocabulary.html
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