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Mystery Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An excuse that shows someone was not at the scene of the crime

a)

setting

b)

detective

c)

alibi

d)

red herring

e)

motive

2.

A sudden discovery that helps solve the crime

a)

motive

b)

breakthrough

c)

sleuth

d)

evidence

e)

incriminate

3.

a fact, object, or observation that helps to solve mysteries.

a)

interrogate

b)

investigate

c)

evidence

d)

clue

e)

frame

4.

Another word for detective

a)

sleuth

b)

motive

c)

incriminated

d)

mystery

e)

witness

5.

A gut feeling

a)

accomplice

b)

setting

c)

alibi

d)

breakthrough

e)

hunch

6.

A reason for doing something

a)

mystery

b)

suspect

c)

interrogated

d)

motive

e)

confess

7.

Something that is unknown

a)

clue

b)

mystery

c)

evidence

d)

perpetrator

e)

suspect

8.

A false clue or distraction that throws the audience off the right track

a)

motive

b)

framed

c)

red herring

d)

alibi

e)

victim

9.

Person who is thought to have committed a crime

a)

suspect

b)

perpetrator

c)

investigator

d)

victim

e)

witness

10.

A person who saw something or has information related to the mystery

a)

accomplice

b)

incriminated

c)

framed

d)

victim

e)

witness

11.

The person who did commit the crime or cause the mystery to happen

a)

interrogator

b)

perpetrator

c)

detective

d)

accomplice

12.

Something concrete that you can bring to court or use as proof

a)

clue

b)

evidence

c)

alibi

d)

suspect

e)

witness

13.

The person who helped to commit the crime

a)

sleuth

b)

witness

c)

accomplice

d)

victim

e)

motive

14.

Fingerprint

a)

evidence

b)

clue

c)

motive

d)

accomplice

e)

victim

15.

To blame someone

a)

frame

b)

suspect

c)

interrogate

d)

incriminate

e)

confess

16.

To admit something

a)

incriminate

b)

frame

c)

confess

d)

red herring

e)

suspect

17.

To question someone

a)

interrogate

b)

incriminate

c)

frame

d)

mystery

e)

witness

18.

Someone who is harmed

a)

suspect

b)

clue

c)

red herring

d)

witness

e)

victim

19.

Turtle was all EXCEPT....

a)

suspect

b)

sleuth

c)

witness

d)

perpetrator

e)

victim

20.

Who confessed in the Westing Game

a)

Mrs. Hoo

b)

Chris Theodorakis

c)

Mrs. Nelson

d)

Angela Wexler

e)

Bertha Erica Crow