Untitled Flashcard Set

1. Cadaver (N) – Dead body
2. Mortify (V) – Decay and die; Shame (cause someone to feel like they want to die)
3. Corpse (N) – Dead body
4. Incorporeal (Adj) – Without a body or physical form
5. Dismember (V) – Separate the limbs from the whole
6. Vivisection (N) – The act of performing surgery upon a living subject
7. Grotesque (Adj) – Bizarre; so strange as to be disturbing
8. Ghastly (Adj) – Horrible; resembling the dead
9. Spectre / Specter (N) – Evil Spirit                                                     
    Also -  Wraith, Apparition, Phantom
10. Mausoleum (N) – Monument enclosing the tomb of a dead person
11. Crypt (N) – Stone-chambered, underground burial vault
12. Revenant (N) – Corpse that has returned from the dead to terrorize the living (Not a zombie – “The Crow”, “High Plains Drifter”)
13. Banshee (N) – Wailing spirit that appears when someone is about to die