spectre
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spectre or (US) specter (ˈspɛktə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a ghost; phantom; apparition |
| 2. | a mental image of something unpleasant or menacing: the spectre of redundancy |
| [C17: from Latin spectrum, from specere to look at] | |
| specter or (US) specter | |
| —n | |
| [C17: from Latin spectrum, from specere to look at] | |
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Spectre
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Example sentences
Some parents are already outraged by the imagined spectre of tracking.
However all this sure raises a spectre of a quicksand or a financial quagmire.
We will walk without the spectre of hypocrisy to haunt our footfalls.
Tying an individual teacher's pay to his pupils' test scores raises the spectre of teaching to the test.
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