Halloween Vocabulary
Small gifts given to children on Halloween
Candy / sweets
The animated film with Jack Skellington
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Trick or ___
treat
A man who turns into a wolf
Werewolf
To frighten someone suddenly → Scare the _____ daylights out of someone
Scare the living daylights out of someone
Something you wear to look like someone/something else
Costume
A film about a girl who moves to Salem and meets witches
Hocus Pocus
Round orange fruit carved into lanterns
Pumpkin
A creature that drinks blood
Vampire
To be very scared
Scared to death
A scary story told at Halloween
Ghost story
He is a vampire in a famous 1992 film
Dracula
Common Halloween decoration made of fake threads
Spider webs / cobwebs
A reanimated corpse
Zombie
Something very easy → Easy as bobbing for ____
Easy as bobbing for apples
A carved pumpkin with a candle inside
Jack-o’-lantern
This film features a killer with a white mask and blue overalls
Halloween
Popular game where you try to bite floating apples
Bobbing for apples
He rises from the dead with bolts in his neck
Frankenstein’s monster
To pretend to be brave
Put on a brave face
The night after Halloween
All Saints' Day
TV show with a spooky town called “Sunnydale” whose main character is a blonde young woman
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
This vegetable was originally used instead of pumpkins for lanterns
Turnip
A ghostly headless horseman from a famous story
The Headless Horseman
To confuse or trick someone → Lead someone up the _____ path
Lead someone up the garden path