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Halloween Vocabulary Word Puzzle #1 — myVocabulary.com

  • The Interactive Lesson Plan puzzle is 1 of 8 vocabulary activities and word puzzles.
  • Use the Greek and Latin word root word list to select the correct answer. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • The AUDIO word story is available in all Root Words Lesson Plans #1 through #6.
  • Common Core alignment to a Interactive Puzzle is to 4 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Greek and Latin Roots", "Precise Meaning" and "Context". CCSS Alignment Strand numbers for Specific Grades: Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4 Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Directions:

To solve the Halloween vocabulary word puzzle,type 15 answers into the boxes INSIDE the colored images. Use clues from the Latin root, the vocabulary definition, part of speech and the Halloween word list. When you hit Submit, you will get back answers to the Halloween vocabulary puzzle, the use of the word in a sentence and the percentage score for correct answers.

Clue:

The Halloween vocabulary puzzle word list contains the correct answers. In addition to this Interactive Halloween vocabulary Word Puzzle, myvocabulary.objectsdev.com also offers a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Search, Crossword, Definition Match, True or False and a Synonym or Antonym activity. See 515 Word Lists such as Monsters, Wizards and Mythology vocabulary lists. They are accessible from the homepage.

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Vocabulary Word List:

Halloween vocabulary word list:
cackle, cauldron, cemetery, coven, crypt, curse, Dracula, Frankenstein, lycanthrope, macabre, miasma, petrify, phantasm, skeleton, superstition

An additional Halloween vocabulary word list thanks to our teacher-participant, MP, in Scotland:

abhorrent, abode of the dead, afraid, annihilation, apparition, Banshee, bewitching, Black Mass, blood covenant, bloodcurdling, blood letting, bloodsucking, bony, brimstone, brutalize, bumps in the night, cloves of garlic, cockroaches, crawling, creaking, creepy, creeping, Cyclops, damned, death, decapitated, decomposing, deja vu, dematerialize, disembody, disembowel, disgusting, disturbing, dunking for apples, doomed, dragon, Druids, ectoplasm, entomb, exorcise, exorcism, exorcist, feasting, fiend, flesh eating, foul, freak, frozen to the spot, frozen with fear, Gargoyles, gasping, Gehenna, Ghost busters, ghost train, grave, Grim Reaper, grisly, grotesque, growling, groaning, gorging, grotesque, gruesome, guise, hackles rising, hair raising, heinous, hideous, hobgoblins, horrible, Hottentots, howling, infest, hysteria, insanity, maggot ridden, manic, maniac, manifestation, Medusa, mesmerize, metamorphosis, moaning, monster, monstrous, moldy, mummy, mutilate, nightmarish, number 3, obliterate perverse, possessed, prey, petrifying, psychopath, rasp, repugnant, revolting, ritualistic, sarcophagus, sacrifice, Sangoma, screeching, scythe, shrieking, slayer, spirit, spiritualist, Styx, soul sucker, tomb, torture, troll, ugly, wailing, warlock, weird, werewolf, whispering, witchdoctor, wooden stake, zap

1) To laugh in a broken manner; to utter a shrill, broken cry (as of a hen.) (verb) Swedish Root = KACKLA meaning to talk

2) The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc. will befall someone. (noun) Norwegian Root = KROS meaning a plague or trouble

3) An assembly or band of witches, esp. a group of thirteen (13) witches. (noun) Root = COVENT meaning assembly

4) Large kettle or boiler circa 1250-1300. (noun) Root = CALIDUS meaning warm or hot