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Nov. 30, 2014

specter \SPEK-ter\ noun 1. some object or source of terror or dread: the specter of disease or famine. 2. a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition. Also, especially British, spectre. Quotes He seemed already to have lost something of himself; to have given up to a hungry specter something of his truth and dignity in order to live. -- Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether, 1902 Origin Specter is dervied from the Latin verb specĕre meaning "to look, see." It entered English in the early 1600s.

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