specter vs spectre
Definitions
noun
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a ghostly appearing figure
Examples
Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.
Specter, who is in a tough primary race in the Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania, said Chinese subsidies and what he called dumping are "a form of international banditry.
Definitions
noun
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a ghostly appearing figure
Examples
The news of more cuts has raised the spectre of redundancies once again.
It also raises the spectre of the American taxman taking retrospective action against scores of US companies that have moved offshore in recent years.
Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.
