Halloween Vocabulary |
| Bobbing for apples |
It is a traditional Halloween game. In this
apples are placed in a container of water and people try to take get the floating
apples out of it using simply with their mouths. |
| Bat |
It is night-flying mammals
that have wings that are cover up with membranes. It senses the objects by means
of reflected sound waves rather than by vision. |
| Carve |
To form or carved by cutting. Cemetery - It is nothing but burial ground. |
| Costume |
A set of dress suitable for a particular occasion. |
| Costume party |
A party where every person dresses in frightening costumes |
| Coffin |
A lengthy box in which a dead person is buried |
| Dungeon |
A dark underground jail. |
| Eerie |
Peculiar and scary |
| Ghost |
Spirit of a dead person. At Halloween, ghosts are generally clothed in
white sheets. |
| Goblin |
In tradition and fairy tales, a horrible creature that does sin or trouble
to humans. |
| Ghoul |
A wicked spirit which takes bodies from graveyard and eats them |
| Graveyard |
It is nothing but burial ground. |
| Gruesome |
Something that is very horrible and shocking; usually associated with
death or injury. |
| Halloween |
A festival celebrated on October 31 in which people wear a scary costume. |
| Haunted |
Inhabited or ghostly. |
| Jack-o-lantern |
Americans habitually cut out frightening faces in pumpkins and
place a candle inside. These pumpkins with features are called Jack-o-lanterns. Jack-o-lanterns are finished to scare away evil spirits on Halloween. |
| Mask |
A cover up for a body or for face, usually wear to disguise the wearer's
identity. |
| Monster |
An imaginary being, often with features of two different animals or
of animals and humans. |
| Mummy |
A dead body preserved by embalming, especially one mummify and wrapped
by or in the way of the ancient Egyptians. |
| Nightmare |
A horrific dream. |
| Potion |
A mixture for drinking, especially that is thought to have medicinal,
magical, or toxic effects. |
| Pumpkin |
A large, spherical, gourd like orange fruit that has broad edible tissue
and is stand on a low-growing creeper. |
| Scary |
Causing fear or fearsome. |
| Spell |
A word, phrase, or the like used to bewitch or fascinate; charm; incantation. |
| Scarecrow |
Figure resembling a person which is used to fright people at Halloween.
(Scarecrows are normally used in fields to frighten away crows). |
| Skeleton |
The shape consists of all the bones of the body |
| Skull |
The skeleton of the head |
| Spider |
Small crab-like creature with eight legs |
| trick or treat |
During Halloween children go to houses and say "trick or treat."
This means give me chocolate or I will have fun trick on you. Families usually
give the children chocolate. If the children do not get chocolate, they occasionally
play mean tricks like breaking the home Jack-o-lantern or placing soap on its
windows. |
| Vampire |
A well-known creature, often said to be a revived dead body that preys
on people in order to suck out their blood. Warlock - A man who perform witchcraft
or magic arts; sorcerer. |
| Witch |
A woman who performs or is believed to perform occult magic; sorceress. |
| Werewolf |
A legendary creature that is half man and half wolf |
| Zombie |
A magic-charm or supernatural force that, according to voodoo faith and
fairy- tale, can enter a body, return life to it, and then manage its actions |