This document defines Halloween-themed SAT vocabulary words including macabre, putrefaction, sinister, grotesque, infernal, expectorate, phantasmagoria, thanatopsis, cadaverous, and berserk. It provides the pronunciation, part of speech, and definition for each word, with definitions involving death, decay, evil appearances, ugliness, hell, coughing or spitting, strange dreams, views of death, corpse-like appearances, and frenzied actions.

1. Halloween SAT Vocabulary
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2. Macabre
• məˈkäbrə,məˈkäb/
• adjective
• disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction
of death and injury.
• "a macabre series of murders"

3. Putrefaction
• pyo͞otrəˈfakSHən/
• noun
• the process of decay or rotting in
a body or other organic matter.

4. Sinister
• ˈsi-nəs-tər
• adjective
• having an evil appearance : looking likely to cause something bad,
harmful, or dangerous to happen

5. Grotesque
• ɡrōˈtesk/
• adjective
• comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

6. Infernal
• inˈfərnl/
• adjective
• of, relating to, or characteristic of hell or the underworld.

7. Expectorate
• ikˈspektəˌrāt/
• verb
• cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
spit out (phlegm).

8. Phantasmagoria
• fan-ˌtaz-mə-ˈgȯr-ē-ə
• noun
• a confusing or strange scene that is like a dream because it is
always changing in an odd way

9. Thanatopsis
• [than-uh-top-sis]
• noun
• a view or contemplation of death.

10. Cadaverous
• kəˈdav(ə)rəs/
• adjective
• resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

11. Berserk
• bə(r)-ˈsərk, ˌbər-, -ˈzərk; ˈbər-ˌ
• noun
• an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be
invulnerable
• one whose actions are recklessly defiant