vocabulary

1. Halloween SAT Vocabulary
Miss Pinker

2. Macabre
• məˈkäbrə,məˈkäb/
• adjective
• disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction
of death and injury.
• "a macabre series of murders"

3. Putrefaction
• pyo͞otrəˈfakSHən/
• noun
• the process of decay or rotting in
a body or other organic matter.

4. Sinister
• ˈsi-nəs-tər
• adjective
• having an evil appearance : looking likely to cause something bad,
harmful, or dangerous to happen

5. Grotesque
• ɡrōˈtesk/
• adjective
• comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

6. Infernal
• inˈfərnl/
• adjective
• of, relating to, or characteristic of hell or the underworld.

7. Expectorate
• ikˈspektəˌrāt/
• verb
• cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
spit out (phlegm).

8. Phantasmagoria
• fan-ˌtaz-mə-ˈgȯr-ē-ə
• noun
• a confusing or strange scene that is like a dream because it is
always changing in an odd way

9. Thanatopsis
• [than-uh-top-sis]
• noun
• a view or contemplation of death.

10. Cadaverous
• kəˈdav(ə)rəs/
• adjective
• resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

11. Berserk
• bə(r)-ˈsərk, ˌbər-, -ˈzərk; ˈbər-ˌ
• noun
• an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be
invulnerable
• one whose actions are recklessly defiant