| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A supernatural being, such as a ghost: apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith. Informal : spook. Regional : haunt. See BEINGS, SUPERNATURAL. 2. A slight amount or indication: breath, dash, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whiff, whisper. Informal : whisker. See BIG, SHOW. | | VERB: | Informal. To write for and credit authorship to another: ghostwrite. See WORDS.
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