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); He had taken her measure
without her true consent; he had done it by duress, forcing the knowledge. —
Split Infinity;
• (compelling)- tending to compel; overpowering, (
); There were innumerable paintings in the Louvre that
were much more beautiful, compelling, and inspiring;
intimidate^ timidity > timid = shy = diffident > diffidence
• (timid)- showing fear and lack of confidence, ( ; ; ); I once
thought of Robert Grant; but he proved timid, and indeed his saintly
propensities would render him suspected. — A Publisher and His Friends;
• (diffident)- lacking self-confidence, ( ; ); Pestalozzi
was diffident, acknowledged freely his mistakes, and sometimes blamed
himself for them bitterly; — Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel;
ghost = specter = spook = wraith = phantom = apparition = phantasm : exorcise
• (ghost)- a demon or spirit, ( ; ; );
• (specter)- a visible incorporeal spirit, esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost;
phantom; apparition, ( ; ); Now that they were in the thick of it,
what frightened him was the specter of defeat. — The Miko;
• (spectral) – ghostly,( ); The black walls of the different dwellings rose
up dreary and solemn, with spectral-looking pipes dimly projecting from
them. — Frank Oldfield Lost and Found;
• (spook)- Informal a ghost; a specter;
• (wraith)- an apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just
before that person's death, (
); Legend said that three Muslim Kings had died in the dungeons
beneath the Castle of the Virgin, died refusing to profess Christianity, and
their ghosts were said to wander wraith-like in the Gateway of God. —
Sharpe's Enemy;
• (phantom)- something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no
physical reality; a ghost or an apparition, ( ; ); One night
there appeared to her in a dream a phantom, — Frederic Chopin as a Man and
Musician;
• (apparition)- a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a
specter or phantom; wraith, ( ;
; ); So unfanatical was he that he even doubted at times whether
the apparition was his father's spirit. — Cobwebs of Thought;
• (phantasm)- a ghostly appearing figure;