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It aroused specters from her past.specters = a mental image of something frightening or disturbing
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A country where drought brings with it the specter of famine.specter = a frightening or disturbing possibility
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One lieutenant had been visited by a specter who had tried to lure him to the bottom of the ocean. (source)specter = ghost
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Then the class captain would blow his whistle and we'd march in a single file to our classrooms, longing for winter already, greeted instead by the specter of yet another long school year. (source)specter = a disturbing mental image
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The specter of never-ending conflict with his Christian neighbors renewed Paul's feelings of despair. (source)specter = a frightening or disturbing possibility
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Readers of this book will realize quickly that there is little relationship between that specter and my argument: I have known many welfare queens; some were my neighbors, and all were white. (source)specter = disturbing mental image
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Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. (source)spectre = ghostunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
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It was my father, standing on my doorstep like some awful specter summoned by my hatefulness. (source)
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You shall no longer take things at second or third hand ....nor look through the eyes of the dead ....nor feed on the spectres in books.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
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The black-and-white specters of Ralph and Alice Kramden argued over a meatloaf. (source)specters = ghostly appearing images
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Marx a spectre is haunting Europe Hilde got off her bed and went to the window facing the bay.† (source)
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The Bloody Baron was the Slytherin ghost, a gaunt and silent specter covered in silver bloodstains.† (source)
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What had hours before been the mart of commerce was now an indescribable chaos of broken columns, fallen walls, streets covered with debris, melted metal, charred and blackened trees standing like spectres.† (source)
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I had more money and success and "security" than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down them with me.† (source)
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They had rejected or removed M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M-1 Abrams tanks, and AC-130 Spectre gunships.† (source)
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It had become a kind of specter for me, that airless little room with no windows.† (source)
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