Definition 1
The fact of expressing yourself in a way that is not clear
Incoherence
It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned _____________.
Juggernaut
The spirit of a dead person appearing in a form that can be seen
Apparition
She is said to have _______________ powers and to be able to communicate with the dead.
Supernatural
Involves freakish caricatures of people's appearance and behaviour, usually horrific but close to comedic.
a) Macabre
b) Grotesque
c) Desolation
d) Sublime
b) Grotesque
A confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost
Labyrinth
Sugar makes your teeth_____________.
Decay
an apparition or double of a living person
Doppelganger
She heard the ___________ noise of the wind howling through the trees
Eerie
To become gradually damaged, worse, or less; to cause something to do this
a) Haggard
b) Ransack
c) Insidious
d) Decay
d) Decay
Strange or mysterious, often in a way that is slightly frightening.
Uncanny
A ____________ shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
Haggard
The state of a place that is empty or where everything has been destroyed
Desolation
As he cradled his daughter's lifeless body in his arms, he swore (to take) __________ on her killers
Vengeance
The punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen
a) Vengeance
b) Volatile
c) Juggernaut
d) Heresy
a) Vengeance
A feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon
Foreboding
He had a ___________ temper and couldn't have been easy to live with.
Volatile
Producing an overwhelming sense of awe or other high emotion through being vast or grand
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly _____________; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out
Ransacked / Ransack
Strange in a frightening and mysterious way
a) Supernatural
b) Eerie
c) Doppelganger
d) Incoherence
b) Eerie
Causing shock and fear because connected with death, esp. strange or cruel death
Macabre
By now she'd had so much cosmetic surgery that she looked quite _______________.
Grotesque
A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
Heresy
High blood pressure is an ___________ condition which has few symptoms.
Insidious
(of something unpleasant or dangerous) gradually and secretly causing harm.
a) Uncanny
b) Doppelganger
c) Macabre
d) Insidious
d) Insidious