Vocabulary Review

noun a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith EXAMPLE: a ghostly apparition at midnight.

noun a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, especially for washing. a partially enclosed, sheltered area along a shore, often partly man-made or dredged to a greater depth, where boats may be moored EXAMPLE: a yacht basin.

adjective weakened by old age; feeble; infirm EXAMPLE: a decrepit man who can hardly walk.

verb to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell. to bring to mind; recall (usually followed by up) EXAMPLE: to conjure up the past.

noun [duh-gair-uh-tahyp], an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor. whichiodine

Noun a railing with supporting balusters.

noun an offensive smell or odor; stink.

noun a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.

noun a legal or judicial inquiry, usually before a jury, especially an investigation made by a coroner into the cause of a death; an investigation or examination.

Adjective having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.

adjective craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite; exceedingly eager

verb to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly EXAMPLE: Stop meddling in my personal life

noun exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger

noun a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.

verb to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal; to move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand, etc. EXAMPLE: to loiter on the way to work; to waste time or dawdle over work: He loiters over his homework until one in the morning.

noun a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.

noun a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

adjective reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion; flowery; excessively ornate; showy EXAMPLE: florid writing.

noun a condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one: EXAMPLE: to find oneself in a sorry plight.

noun infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge EXAMPLE SENTENCE: But have you the right to vengeance?