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