WorksheetsMystery Vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
alibi
Responsible for doing something wrong.
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened.
Why someone committed a crime.
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
clue
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
Free from guilt or blame.
Why someone committed a crime.
An act against the law.
crime
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.
To study something by closely examining and questioning.
An act against the law.
detective
To question someone formally and thoroughly.
Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.
A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information to solve the mystery.
A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.
evidence
Something that helps prove who committed a crime.
To question someone formally and thoroughly.
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
Anything that is secret or unknown; something to be solved.
guilty
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
Why someone committed a crime.
Responsible for doing something wrong.
Someone who committed a crime.
innocent
A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information to solve the mystery.
To question someone formally and thoroughly.
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
Free from guilt or blame.
interrogate
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened
To question someone formally and thoroughly.
Someone’s usual way of committing a crime.
Responsible for doing something wrong.
investigate
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened
To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
To study something by closely examining and questioning.
motive
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
Why someone committed a crime.
To study something by closely examining and questioning.
Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.
mystery
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
Anything that is secret or unknown; something to be solved.
Responsible for doing something wrong.
suspect
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.
To question someone formally and thoroughly.
A person who is believed to have possibly committed a crime.
testify
To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened
victim
Someone who committed a crime.
A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information to solve the mystery.
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
A detective
witness
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
A detective
A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.
Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.
modus operandi
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.
Someone’s usual way of committing a crime.
Free from guilt or blame.
perpetrator
To study something by closely examining and questioning.
A person who is believed to have possibly committed a crime.
A detective
Someone who committed a crime.
red herring
Responsible for doing something wrong.
A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.
A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.
A fish
sleuth
A detective
Someone who committed a crime.
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened
Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.
testimony
To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.
An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened
A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.
Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.
