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Vocab. TWG #1-4
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Language - English
6th Grade
09/01/2010

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Filled with anger because of injustice or unfairness
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Indignant
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Discomposure; being alarmed or upset
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Dismay
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Release; withdraw from; give up
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Relinguish
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Try to overcome, solve, or deal with
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Grapple
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Not having sufficient ability, incapable
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Incompetent
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Hidden; concealed
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Veiled
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Suffering with pain
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Afflicted
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Making unjustified claims to excellence or importance
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Pretentious
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Shyness; lack of self-confidence
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Timidity
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Causing disagreement
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Divisive
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An excuse that an accused person uses to show that he/she was somewhere else than at the scene of the crime
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Alibi
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An advance or discovery that helps solve a crime
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Breakthrough
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A fact or object that helps to solve mysteries
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Clue
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An act committed in violation of the law
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Crime
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To infer by logical reasoning
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Deduce
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A person who investigates crimes and gather information
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Detective
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Something, such as a witness statement or object that is used as proof in a crime
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Evidence
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a guess or feeling not based on know facts
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Hunch
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An inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way
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Motive
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Something that is secret and unknown
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Mystery
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The arrangement of incidents in a story
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Plot
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To steal or flinch
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Purloin
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Something that is used to divert attention away from the basic issue
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Red Herring
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The time, place, and environment and surrounding circumstances of a story
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Setting
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Another name for a detective
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Sleuth
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A person who is suspected of a crime
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Suspect
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