🎃👻 Halloween is coming up on October 31, and it’s full of fun traditions!
On this holiday, American children dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating, meaning they go from house to house in the neighborhood ringing the doorbell and gathering candy.
Today you’ll learn Halloween vocabulary – common words for scary things associated with this holiday – as well as six different ways to talk about being scared.
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Halloween words in English:
ghost
haunted house
vampire
bat
witch
wizard
mummy
zombie
skull
devil
cemetery / graveyard with gravestones / tombstones
coffin
spiderweb / cobweb
jack-o’-lantern
To describe scary situations or environments, you can use the adjectives spooky and creepy.
If something gives you a cold sensation of fear, then it is chilling.
A costume or decoration that has lots of blood or clearly shows something dead, can be described as gruesome.
And finally, if you are extremely scared, you are terrified or petrified – this last one describes being so completely scared that you’re frozen and can’t move.
When you expand your vocabulary, you’ll be able to speak English more fluently because you’ll know a lot more words that you can use to express yourself just the way you want!
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