Mystery Vocabulary Set 1

Mystery Vocabulary - Set 1

Multiple Choice

What is detective?

• A person looking for and gathering clues to solve a mystery.

• A problem that needs to be investigated and solved.

• Someone who did something wrong.

• A person who saw a crime being committed.

Multiple Choice

What is sleuth?

• A problem that needs to be investigated and solved.

• The act of admitting to doing something wrong.

• Another name for a detective.

• Where the crime took place.

Multiple Choice

What is case?

• Someone who solves the crime.

• Blame someone for doing something wrong.

• Where the crime took place.

• A problem that needs to be investigated and solved.

Multiple Choice

What is clue?

• Someone who did something wrong.

• A fact or object that gives information toward solving a crime.

• Another name for a detective.

• An excuse that a person uses to show that he or she could not have committed the crime.

Multiple Choice

What is investigate?

• A problem the detective is working on.

• A fact or object that gives information toward solving a crime.

• A problem that needs to be investigated and solved.

• Where the crime took place.

Multiple Choice

What is witness?

• A statement, fact, or object that helps prove the solution to a mystery.

• A person looking for and gathering clues to solve a mystery.

• Someone who did something wrong.

• A person who saw a crime being committed.

Multiple Choice

What is culprit?

• A person who saw a crime being committed.

• The act of admitting to doing something wrong.

• Someone who did something wrong.

• Another name for a detective.

Multiple Choice

What is confess?

• A problem that needs to be investigated and solved.

• Blame someone for doing something wrong.

• The act of admitting to doing something wrong.

• A problem the detective is working on.