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

Grotesque

• ɡrōˈtesk/

• adjective

• comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

Infernal

• inˈfərnl/

• adjective

• of, relating to, or characteristic of hell or the underworld.

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

Thanatopsis

• [than-uh-top-sis]  

• noun

• a view or contemplation of death.

Cadaverous

• kəˈdav(ə)rəs/

• adjective

• resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

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