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20 Cards in this Set
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Alibi |
An excuse or discovery that helps solve a crime. |
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Breakthrough |
An advance or discovery that helps to solve a crime. |
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Clue |
A fact or object that helps solve mysteries. |
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Crime |
An act comitted in violation of the law. |
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Deduce |
To infer by logical reasoning. |
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Deduce |
To infer by logical reasoning. |
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Deduce |
To infer by logical reasoning. |
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Detective |
A person who investigates crimes and gathers information. |
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Evidence |
Something, such as a witness statement or object that is used as proof in a crime. |
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Hunch |
A guess or feeling not based on known facts. |
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Motive |
An inner driver that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way. |
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Mystery |
Something that is secrete or unknown. |
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Plot |
The arrangement or incidents in a story. |
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Purloin |
To steal or filch. |
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Red herring |
Something that 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 |
Another name for a detective . |
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Suspect |
A person who is thought to have comitted a crime. |
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Victim |
Someone who is harmed or suffers some loss. |
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Witness |
Someone who saw or can give first hand accounts of something. |
