Halloween SAT Vocabulary Miss Pinker
Macabre
• məˈkäbrə,məˈkäb/
• adjective
• disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
• "a macabre series of murders"
Putrefaction
• pyo'otrəˈfakSHən/
• noun
• the process of decay or rotting in
a body or other organic matter.
Sinister
• ˈsi-nəs-tər
• adjective
• having an evil appearance : looking likely to cause something bad, harmful, or dangerous to happen
Expectorate
• ikˈspektəˌrāt/
• verb
• cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
spit out (phlegm).
Phantasmagoria
• fan-ˌtaz-mə-ˈgor-ē-ə\
• noun
• a confusing or strange scene that is like a dream because it is always changing in an odd way