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Mystery Vocab 1
Term | Definition |
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Investigation | A searching inquiry for ascertaining facts; detailed or careful examination. |
Detective | A member of the police or investigator whose is to found clues and the solution to a problem/mystery |
Suspicious | Inclined to suspect, especially inclined to suspect evil; distrustful |
Culprit | A person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault. |
Clues | Evidence |
Motive | Something to make a person act a certain way. |
Alibi | The defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time of the crime. |
Evidence | That which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof. |
Infer | To guess |
Interrogate | To ask questions sometimes to seek answers |
Investigate | To examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail. |
Red Herring | Something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue. Or something to throw you off track of the real problem |
Sleuth | A detective. |