English MysteryVocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Accomplice | A helper or partner in a criminal act
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| Alibi | An excuse (truth or lie) regarding where a person was during a crime
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| Alias | An alternate identity
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| Avarice | Greed
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| Deduction | a process of thinking, figuring out a puzzle by pulling the pieces apart and reassembling them
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| Eccentric | Odd, quirky, out of the norm
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| Gaunt | Sunken faced
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| Motive | A reason for an act
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| Pseudonym | A fake name used by a writer for various reasons
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| Scrutinize | To study carefully
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| Sleuth | A detective
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| Swanky | Rich, but old rich, like antiques, etc
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| Irony | Verbal (like sarcasm) dramatic(when the reader knows information that a main character in a story doesn't situational(when a reader is led up to believe something...and then the opposite occurs. Like a bank robber robbing a bank to save someone's life
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| Foreshadowing | A literary device used to give the reader hints to an upcoming, significant event. Usually this carries a negative connotation, but sometimes good events may be foreshadowed too
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| Red herrrings | Misleading clues planted by the author in a plot to throw the reader off track. These are used to draw the reader into the story.
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