| Halloween |
N. a holiday celebrated on October 31 in which people dress in scary costumes |
| to carve |
V. to cut with a large knife |
| pumpkin |
N. a large, orange vegetable associated with Halloween |
| jack-o-lantern |
N. Americans traditionally cut out scary faces in pumpkins and put a candle inside. These pumpkins with faces are called "jack-o-lanterns." Jack-o-lanterns are made to scare away evil spirits on Halloween. |
| costume |
N. scary clothing or disguises worn on Halloween |
| trick or treat |
On Halloween, children go from house to house and say "trick or treat." This phrase means "give me candy or I will play a trick on you." Families usually give the children candy. If the children don't get candy, they sometimes play mean tricks like breaking the house's jack-o-lantern or putting soap on its windows. |
| a costume party |
N. a party where everyone dresses in scary costumes |
| bobbing for apples |
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. |
| a skeleton |
N. a body of nothing but bones |
| a ghost |
N. the spirit of a dead person which appears again |
| a ghoul |
N. an evil spirit which takes bodies from graves and eats them |
| a goblin |
N. an unkind spirit which plays tricks on people |
| a witch |
N. a woman with magic powers (usually evil) |
| a warlock |
N. a man with magic powers (usually evil) |