Halloween Words

Jeffrey G. (United States of America)
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  1. agitation
    a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance
  2. apparition
    a ghostly appearing figure
  3. apple
    a tree widely cultivated for its firm rounded edible fruits
  4. atrocious
    shockingly brutal or cruel
  5. autumn
    the season when the leaves fall from the trees
  6. awful
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  7. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  8. basement
    the lowermost portion of a structure below ground level
  9. bat
    a club used for hitting a ball in various games
  10. beast
    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  11. behemoth
    someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  12. bewitch
    cast a spell over someone or something
  13. black
    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
  14. bleary
    tired to the point of exhaustion
  15. blood
    the fluid that is pumped through the body by the heart
  16. bones
    a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
  17. boo
    show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
  18. broom
    a cleaning implement for sweeping
  19. brute
    resembling a beast
  20. buried
    placed in a grave
  21. cackle
    emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
  22. candle
    stick of wax with a wick in the middle
  23. candy
    a rich sweet made of flavored sugar often with fruit or nuts
  24. cat
    feline mammal usually having thick soft fur
  25. cauldron
    a very large pot that is used for boiling
  26. cellar
    a room that is partly or wholly below ground level
  27. cemetery
    a tract of land used for burials
  28. chilling
    the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
  29. coffin
    a box in which a corpse is buried
  30. concern
    something that interests you because it is important
  31. costume
    attire characteristic of a country, time, or social class
  32. creature
    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  33. creepy
    causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
  34. creepy-crawly
    an animal that creeps or crawls
  35. cry
    shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
  36. curse
    an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil
  37. danger
    the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
  38. dead
    no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
  39. demon
    an evil supernatural being
  40. despicable
    morally reprehensible
  41. diabolic
    showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
  42. dim
    lacking in light; not bright or harsh
  43. dire
    fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  44. doorbell
    a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
  45. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  46. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  47. Dracula
    comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
  48. dread
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  49. dreary
    lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
  50. dusky
    lighted by or as if by twilight
  51. eerie
    suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  52. enchantment
    a magical spell
  53. evil
    morally bad or wrong
  54. evil spirit
    a spirit tending to cause harm
  55. excitement
    the state of being emotionally worked up
  56. exhilaration
    the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
  57. fall
    descend freely under the influence of gravity
  58. fear
    an emotion in anticipation of some specific pain or danger
  59. fearsome
    causing fear or dread or terror
  60. fervor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  61. flashlight
    a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
  62. foggy
    filled or abounding with fog or mist
  63. forbidding
    an official prohibition or edict against something
  64. Frankenstein
    the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
  65. freak
    a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
  66. fright
    an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
  67. fun
    activities that are enjoyable or amusing
  68. ghost
    the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
  69. ghoul
    an evil spirit or ghost
  70. giant
    any creature of exceptional size
  71. gloomful
    depressingly dark
  72. gloomy
    depressingly dark
  73. glowering
    showing a brooding ill humor
  74. glum
    moody and sorrowful
  75. goblin
    (folklore) a small, ugly creature that causes trouble
  76. graverobber
    someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
  77. graveyard
    a tract of land used for burials
  78. grim
    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
  79. haunted
    inhabited by or as if by apparitions
  80. hazy
    filled or abounding with fog or mist
  81. hex
    an evil spell
  82. hoot
    a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
  83. horrendous
    causing fear or dread or terror
  84. horrific
    grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
  85. horror
    intense and profound fear
  86. howl
    cry loudly, as of animals
  87. jack-o-lantern
    a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  88. living dead
    a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  89. magical spell
    a verbal formula believed to have magical force
  90. mask
    a covering to disguise or conceal the face
  91. menacing
    threatening evil or danger
  92. midnight
    12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
  93. minacious
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  94. misty
    filled or abounding with fog
  95. monstrous
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
  96. moon
    the natural satellite of the Earth
  97. moonlight
    the light of the Moon
  98. mummy
    a body that is embalmed, dried, and wrapped for burial
  99. nighttime
    the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
  100. ogre
    (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
  101. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  102. orange
    any citrus tree bearing oranges
  103. owl
    a bird of prey that hunts at night
  104. peril
    a state of danger involving risk
  105. phantasm
    something existing in perception only
  106. phantom
    something existing in perception only
  107. pitch-black
    extremely dark
  108. pitch-dark
    extremely dark
  109. potion
    a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage
  110. pumpkin
    a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
  111. rat
    any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
  112. risk
    a source of danger
  113. roar
    make a loud noise, as of an animal
  114. safety
    being certain that adverse effects will not be caused
  115. savage
    without civilizing influences
  116. scarecrow
    a human-shaped object used to keep birds away from crops
  117. scary
    provoking fear or terror
  118. scream
    utter a sudden loud cry
  119. shadow
    a dark shape created by an object blocking a source of light
  120. shivery
    cold enough to cause body trembles
  121. shout
    utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice
  122. shriek
    sharp piercing cry
  123. shuddery
    provoking fear or terror
  124. sinister
    wicked, evil, or dishonorable
  125. skeleton
    the structure providing a frame for the body of an animal
  126. skull
    the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates
  127. snake
    limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
  128. sorry
    feeling or expressing regret
  129. spectre
    a ghostly appearing figure
  130. spell
    write or name the letters that comprise the accepted form of
  131. spider
    predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
  132. spirit
    the vital principle or animating force within living things
  133. spook
    a mental representation of some haunting experience
  134. spooky
    inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
  135. strange
    unusual or out of the ordinary
  136. sugary
    containing sugar
  137. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  138. supernatural
    not able to be explained by physical laws
  139. sweet
    having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
  140. tasty
    pleasing to the palate
  141. terrible
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  142. threatening
    suggesting or expressive of evil, harm, or danger
  143. tombstone
    a stone that is used to mark a grave
  144. treat
    apply a process to with the aim of preparing for a purpose
  145. trick
    a cunning or deceitful action or device
  146. troubled
    characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
  147. turmoil
    a violent disturbance
  148. twilight
    the time of day immediately following sunset
  149. unilluminated
    without illumination
  150. unusual
    not common or ordinary
  151. upheaval
    a violent disturbance
  152. vague
    lacking clarity or distinctness
  153. vampire
    a corpse rising at night to drink the blood of the living
  154. vicious
    having the nature of evildoing
  155. vile
    morally reprehensible
  156. wail
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  157. warlock
    a male witch or sorcerer
  158. web
    an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
  159. werewolf
    a mythological creature that changes from a man to wild animal at night
  160. wickedness
    the quality of being wicked
  161. wig
    a hairpiece covering the head and made of real or fake hair
  162. witch
    a female sorcerer or magician
  163. wolf
    any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
  164. wolfman
    a mythological creature that changes from a man to wild animal at night
  165. worry
    a strong feeling of anxiety
  166. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
  167. wrong
    not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
  168. zombie
    a god of cults of African origin worshipped in West Indies
Created on Thu Oct 14 15:04:11 EDT 2010 (updated Thu Oct 14 15:40:22 EDT 2010)

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