Halloween Special

Part II:

Halloween Vocabulary

Study the following vocabulary related to Halloween.

·Bobbing for apples
Noun (game) - This is a traditional Halloween game. You put apples in a barrel of water and people try to take the floating apples out of the water using only their mouths.
·Cackling
Adjective - An evil, wild, other worldly laughing sound
·Carve
Verb - (regular: carve - carved - carved) to cut with a knive, in the context of a pumpkin to cut a face into the pumpkin.
·Evil
Very bad behaviour with cruel intent.
·Haunted
Location containing evil spirits or ghosts, usually a house or castle.
·Ghost
Noun - the spirit of a dead person which appears again. Ghosts at Halloween are usually dressed in white sheets.
·Hideous
Adjective - Something so ugly you cannot look at it.
·Horrified
Adjective - very frightened, afraid or scared.
·Jack-o-lantern
Noun - A carved pumpkin usually with a candle burning inside to illuminate the pumpkin.
·Pumpkin
Noun - A large, orange vegetable in the squash family associated with Halloween.
·Skeleton
Noun - The bone structre of a body without the flesh.
·"Trick or Treat"
Saying - Used by children when going from house to house asking for candy. The phrase also means that if you don't give me a treat I will play a trick on you!
·Wicked
Adjective - the same as evil.
·Witch
Noun - A woman with magic powers (usually evil).

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