For the Week ending 01/09/09
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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having death as a subject; tending to produce horror; gruesome
Some have a _______ fascination with true-life crime. |
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relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses; supernatural
Extrasensory perception, channeling, and telekinesis fall into the realm of the _______. |
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filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense: spiritual; mysterious
People often experience _______ sensations in the shadows of ancient Stonehenge. |
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absurdly incongruous; departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical: fantastic, bizarre
The flames in the wax museum melted the faces into _______ caricatures. |
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one who conjures spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future; sorcerer, warlock
A _______ might function as a medium in a séance. |