Definitionn. a mental representation of some haunting experience
Last update: February 3, 2017
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He peeked out and was startled by a white-clad specter on the stairs. [noun]
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Thus the specter of suspicion that had been hovering over the camp vanished into thin air. [Please select]
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Instead he and his father chatted as they packed quite as pleasantly as if no specter stood between them. [Please select]
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At last their entire stock of provisions was exhausted, and they stood face to face with the grim specter of starvation. [Please select]
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But ever the specter of royal dignity walked beside her and held her captive. [Please select]
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At night she was there like a slender specter, pacing beside him under the moaning pines. [Please select]
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With the blood all drained from her face, she stared at him as if she saw a specter--"Derry," she whispered. [Please select]
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Meanwhile a Northern politician brought on the specter of Napoleon for a different purpose. [Please select]
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Across this scene of political harmony, however, the Missouri controversy cast the specter-like shadow of slavery. [Please select]
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And lurking behind all was the specter of slavery and sectionalism. [Please select]
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Yet, I am certain that not even one of these, when "looking backward from his manhood's prime, saw not the specter of his mis-spent time." [Please select]
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