Culprit and Sacrifice

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Culprit noun - A person who has committed a crime.

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Sacrifice and culprit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sacrifice" instead a noun "Culprit".

Sacrifice noun - Something offered to a god.

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Culprit and sacrifice are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Culprit" instead a noun "Sacrifice".

symbolic	symbolic culprit	symbolic sacrifice
complete	complete culprit	complete sacrifice
certain	certain culprit	certain sacrifice
original	original culprit	original sacrifice
Other adjectives: fake, many, true, dead, actual, real, big, huge, potential, supposed, ultimate, apparent, previous, fifth.

The second culprit was less popular, but one classmate tried to sacrifice himself to save her.

Source: Roleplay / Doubt Academy
Maya pretends to be the original culprit to save her, Espella uses her status as Bezella to cancel out her sacrifice, and then Maya tries to Take a Third Option and free Espella from the flame pit at the last second.

Source: Video Game / Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney
Heroic Sacrifice: The third culprit tries to frame their victim for this because the motive was "kill someone or I'll kill one of you at random." He's Back: After Cherryblod talks Sigrun out of her Heroic B.S.O.D.

Source: Roleplay / Trustfell

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