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Halloween Vocabulary



costume

a set of clothes made to hide your true identity

ghost

the spirit of a dead person

haunted

to be visited by ghosts

monster

a large ugly frightening creature
witch a person who is believed to have magical powers, especially to do bad things
vampire a mythical creature who cannot die and who sucks the blood from people

werewolf

a mythical creature that is half man and half wolf

cemetery

a place where dead people are buried
spell an act of magic that is done to make someone act a certain way, or done to cause a specific result that may not have otherwise occurred.

eerie

strange and frightening

graveyard
another word for cemetery

nightmare

a bad dream
gruesome something that is very unpleasant and shocking; usually connected with death or injury.

dungeon

a dark underground prison

coffin

a long box in which a dead person is buried

skeleton

the structure consisting of all the bones of the body


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