Associations to the word «Specter»

Wiktionary

SPECTER, noun. A ghostly apparition.
SPECTER, noun. A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
SPECTER AT THE FEAST, noun. Alternative spelling of spectre at the feast

Dictionary definition

SPECTER, noun. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".
SPECTER, noun. A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus