decipher

In a sentence

Six example sentences with decipher, each labelled with its topic.

• Ventris needed three years to decipher Linear B, and the tablets turned out to be inventories of sheep and olive oil.

  History

• Without the key, the intercepted traffic is unreadable noise, and no laptop on earth will decipher it before the sun burns out.

  Technology

• The last chest opens only if you decipher the wall runes, which map onto letters once you find the tavern menu.

  Gaming

• The novel's heroine must decipher a coded diary, and each chapter unlocks one more letter of the key.

  Literature

• The spy in the film must decipher a message hidden in a crossword before the train reaches Vienna.

  Movies

• Rival scouts tried all season to decipher the coach's hand signals, which changed meaning every week.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains decipher. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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