Mystery of 3 Students Vocab

Fill in the blank: If something is ________, then it is starting to form. If you have a plan ________, then you are thinking about what you might do.

• brewing

• finished

• broken

• lost

Fill in the blank: The person who committed a crime is called the ________. Another meaning of the word is the source or cause of a problem.

• culprit

• witness

• victim

• bystander

Fill in the blank: If someone ________ you, they led you to believe something that is untrue or wrong. Someone might be ________ by a fake news story.

• deceived

• admired

• ignored

• encouraged

Fill in the blank: When someone ________ something, they get rid of it completely. ________ can also mean to defeat a team or a person so they’re no longer in a competition.

• eliminates

• creates

• celebrates

• investigates

Fill in the blank: In British English, like in the play, ________ means vacation. British people talk about going 'on ________' instead of 'on vacation.'

• holiday

• journey

• picnic

• leave

Fill in the blank: Someone who is ________ by something is very interested in it because it seems strange or mysterious. Many people are ________ by space.

• intrigued

• bored

• annoyed

• confused

Fill in the blank: A ________ is money given to or won by a student to help pay for their education. ________ is a word for someone who deeply studies and knows a lot about a subject.

• scholarship

• allowance

• tuition

• stipend

Fill in the blank: When you ________ something or somewhere, you look around and examine all parts of it. A detective might ________ a crime scene for clues. As a noun, ________ means poll.

• survey

• ignore

• destroy

• decorate

Directions: Circle the word in each bolded pair that BEST completes each sentence. 1. I was (deceived/intrigued) by the library’s selection of new books; I wanted to read all of them!

• deceived

• intrigued

Directions: Circle the word in each bolded pair that BEST completes each sentence. 2. We knew the (culprit/holiday) was the person who left a fingerprint on the stolen item.

• culprit

• holiday