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Nouns
(n)
ghost
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shade
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spook
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wraith
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specter
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spectre
a mental representation of some haunting experience
“he looked like he had seen a ghost”
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“it aroused specters from his past”
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(n)
ghostwriter
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ghost
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
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(n)
ghost
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
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(n)
touch
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trace
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ghost
a suggestion of some quality
“there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone”
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“he detected a ghost of a smile on her face”
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Verbs
(v)
ghost
move like a ghost
“The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard”
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(v)
haunt
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obsess
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ghost
haunt like a ghost; pursue
“Fear of illness haunts her”
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(v)
ghost
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ghostwrite
write for someone else
“How many books have you ghostwritten so far?”
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