Gothic Vocabulary

The exercise was created 2022-11-30 by EmilyN. Question count: 26.

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  • gloomy depressing, without hope
  • decaying gradually becoming worse
  • haunted visited by ghost
  • threatening warning of trouble or something dangerous
  • taboo forbidden or avoided
  • melodramatic more emotional than necessary
  • exaggerate making something seem better/larger/more important than it is
  • supernatural cannot be explained by science
  • omen sign of a future event
  • ominous sign that something unpleasant will happen
  • superstition belief in old ideas about magic
  • burdened troubled by something heavy
  • macabre gruesome and horrifying
  • menacing threat of something bad
  • trapdoor small opening in ceiling or floor
  • treacherous extremely dangerous
  • isolated alone
  • heroine female hero
  • tension feeling of worry and anxiety, difficult to relax
  • despair feeling of no hope
  • descend go down, e.g ladder or path
  • victorian british era, 1820~1914
  • prophecy statement about what will happen in the future
  • eerie strange in a frightening way
  • attic space on top of house, usually used for storage
  • bleak hopeless and depressing

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