English

Marvin Nixon

2 June, 18:06

Read this excerpt from "Paul Revere's Ride"

But mostly he watched with eager search

The belfry-tower of the Old North Church,

As it rose above the graves on the hill,

Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.

And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height

A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!

Which of the following sentences uses a word most like the meaning of spectral here?

On foggy fall nights, the kids in town dare each other to walk through the ghostly gates of the abandoned mansion near the hollow.

Through the telescope we saw a number of colors from the refraction around the star.

The prison at Alcatraz has been abandoned for years.

The ancient man bore wrinkles deep with the knowledge handed down for generations in his tiny tribe.