mystification
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Mystification is one of the tricks of the older schools of detection.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don
Mystification of the Professor and Defeat of a General, IV.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
Mystification reached its height when Raffles was informed that the other's father was anxious to meet him, and he instantly consented to gratify that whim.
From The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Mystification bitterness and wrath rose and boiled in him when he thought of the deference, the devotion, the credulity with which he had listened to St. George.
From The Lesson of the Master by James, Henry
Vocabulary lists containing mystification
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 5
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