13-16 vocab/mystery Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 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 |
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