Vocabulary

• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• ancient: Very old; having lived a very long time ago
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• creepy: Scary; annoying or unpleasant
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• lurk: To hide somewhere, e.g. to do something wrong
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• costume: Special clothes, e.g. clothes for acting in a film
• slam: To criticize sharply
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• creature: Animal of any type
• prank: Trick performed to make people look foolish
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
• mad: Very angry
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• laboratory: A place to do scientific experiments
• shut: To stop being open for business
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• great: Very good; better than before
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• gruesome: Showing horrible scenes, e.g. showing blood
• cemetery: Place where people are buried after they die
• scientist: Person who is trained in a science
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• shuffle: To change the order of items/people in a group
• blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• hallway: Interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• zombie: Dead person who exists among the living
• vampire: Bloodsucking dead person who bites neck of victim
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• come: To arrive at a place
• graveyard: Area used for burials; area with many graves
• terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
• witch: Woman believed to have magical powers
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• cauldron: Large metal container used for cooking over a fire
• candy: Small sweet foods made mostly of sugar
• macabre: Suggesting death or violence in a weird way
• undead: The undead people who are neither dead nor alive