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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| wraith | / | Noun, Noun |
| phantom | /x | Noun, Noun |
| spook | / | Noun, Noun |
| ghost | / | Noun, Noun |
| shade | / | Noun, Noun |
| apparition | xx/x | Noun, Noun |
| spectre | /x | Noun, Noun |
| looming | /x | Verb |
| ghostly | /x | Adjective |
| shadow | /x | Noun |
| menace | /x | Noun |
| threat | / | Noun |
| possibility | xx/xx | Noun |
| lingering | /xx | Adjective |
| terror | /x | Noun |
| fear | / | Noun |
| disembodied | xx/x | Adjective |
| prospect | /x | Noun |
| pall | / | Noun |
| impending | x/x | Adjective |
| demon | /x | Noun |
| baleful | /x | Adjective |
| raising | /x | Noun |
| imminence | /xx | Noun |
| leering | /x | Noun |
| suspicion | x/x | Noun |
| reemergence | xx/x | Noun |
| foreboding | x/x | Noun |
| scourge | / | Noun |
| ghoul | / | Noun |
| inevitability | xxxx/xx | Noun |
| demonic | x/x | Adjective |
| uncertainty | x/xx | Noun |
| unease | x/ | Noun |
| perpetual | x/xx | Adjective |
| monster | /x | Noun |
| notion | /x | Noun |
| shadowy | /xx | Adjective |
| horrors | /x | Noun |
| glowering | /xx | Verb |
| dreaded | /x | Verb, Adjective |
| visage | /x | Noun |
| plague | / | Noun |
| apprehension | xx/x | Noun |
| sinister | /xx | Adjective |
| nonexistence | xx/x | Noun |
| miasma | x/x | Noun |
| deathly | /x | Adjective |
| emergence | x/x | Noun |
| stigmatization | /xx/x | Noun |
| uneasiness | x/xx | Noun |
| death | / | Noun |
| malevolent | x/xx | Adjective |
| nightmarish | /xx | Adjective |
| recurring | x/x | Adjective |
| harbinger | /xx | Noun |
| fearful | /x | Adjective |
| undercurrent | /xxx | Noun |
| rising | /x | Verb |
| confronting | x/x | Verb |
| accusation | xx/x | Noun |
| undead | xx | Noun |
| crippling | /xx | Noun |
| danger | /x | Noun |
| fearsome | /x | Adjective |
| haze | / | Noun |
| spectral | /x | Noun |
| grave | / | Noun |
| ghastly | /x | Adjective |
| intimations | xx/x | Noun |
| resurgent | x/x | Noun |
| nagging | /x | Noun |
| disappearance | xx/x | Noun |
| likelihood | /xx | Noun |
| creeping | /x | Verb |
| reappearance | xx/x | Noun |
| recurrent | x/x | Adjective |
| omnipresent | xx/x | Adjective |
| incrimination | xxx/x | Noun |
| existence | x/x | Noun |
| paranoia | xx/x | Noun |
| perils | /x | Noun |
| anxiety | x/xx | Noun |
| pester | /x | Verb |
| stranger | /x | Noun |
| espy | /x | Name |
| scatterer | /xx | Noun |
| seer | / | Noun |
| corpse | / | Noun |
| sitter | /x | Noun |
| looker | /x | Noun |
| beholder | x/x | Noun |
| sentinel | /xx | Noun |
| creeper | /x | Noun |
| skeleton | /xx | Noun |
| speculator | /xxx | Noun |
| malthusian | /xxx | Adjective |
| exorcised | /xx | Verb |
| bolshevism | /xxx | Name |
| miscegenation | x/x/x | Noun |
| frightening | /xx | Adjective |
| terrifying | /xxx | Adjective |
| gaunt | / | Adjective |
| leahy | /x | Name |
| overpopulation | xxxx/x | Noun |
| horrifying | /xxx | Adjective |
| stalks | / | Verb |
| grim | / | Adjective |
| mccarthyism | x/xxx | Name |
| disunion | x/x | Noun |
| senator | /xx | Verb |
| continuum | x/xx | Noun |
| elusive | x/x | Adjective |
| fantasy | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| figment | /x | Noun |
| gamut | /x | Noun |
| goblins | /x | Noun |
| incubus | /xx | Noun |
| ogre | /x | Noun |
| portent | /x | Noun |
| premonition | xx/x | Noun |
| range | / | Noun, Verb |
| scepter | /x | Noun, Verb |
| silk | / | Noun, Verb |
| spectra | /x | Verb |
| spirit | /x | Noun, Verb |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| girly | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| maypole | /x | Noun, Verb |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| pidgin | /x | Noun |
| oh | / | Noun, Verb |
| gloss | / | Noun, Verb |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
