| VERB | emotion | spook | frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action |
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| NOUN | person | spook, creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy | someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric |
| cognition | spook, ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre | a mental representation of some haunting experience |
| Sounds | spuw'k | |
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| Rhymes | archduke ... Wouk: 14 rhymes with uwk... | |
| Meaning | someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. | |
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| Synonyms | creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy | |
| Broader | unpleasant person, disagreeable person | A person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
| Spanish | bicho raro, espectro, estrafalario, rarito, tipo raro | |
| Meaning | A mental representation of some haunting experience. | |
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| Synonyms | ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre | |
| Broader | apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow | Something existing in perception only |
| Spanish | aparición, espectro, fantasma, sombra, wraith | |
| Catalan | espectre, fantasma | |
| Verbs | spook | frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action |
| Meaning | frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The performance is likely to spook Sue | |
| Example | "The noise spooked the horse" | |
| Broader | frighten, fright, scare, affright | drive out by frightening |
| Nouns | spook | a mental representation of some haunting experience |
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