H.P. Lovecraft Words

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Some words you may come across reading H.P.Lovecraft's stories.
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  1. Erie
    the 4th largest of the Great Lakes
  2. Weird
    fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
  3. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  4. ghostly
    resembling or characteristic of a phantom
  5. specter
    a ghostly appearing figure
  6. singular
    being a single and separate person or thing
  7. alienist
    a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
  8. cosmic
    pertaining to or characteristic of the universe
  9. providence
    prudence and care exercised in the management of resources
  10. Stygian
    dark and dismal as of the river in Hades
  11. sojourn
    a temporary stay
  12. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  13. cyclopean
    of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops
  14. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  15. dystopian
    of an imaginary place where life is extremely bad
  16. quirk
    a strange attitude or habit
  17. foreign
    not deriving from the essential nature of something
  18. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  19. transcendental
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
Created on Wed Mar 14 08:28:07 EDT 2012

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