spectre
spek ter
- n a ghostly appearing figure
- n a mental representation of some haunting experience
- When Administration stalwarts sidetracked the Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing bill to a House Rules Committee pigeonhole year ago, they thought they had safely laid the spectre of.
- I'm still haunted by the spectre of Neil's girlfriend, in the second season opener.
- They remain tiny organizations but the attacks raise the spectre of a new campaign of terrorist violence; something most people in Northern Ireland had thought they would never .