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Scary Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which image shows a SEPULCHER?

a)
b)
c)
2.

Which model does NOT have a HIDEOUS outfit?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

Which image could show EMACIATED?

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

Which picture shows something DECREPIT?

a)
b)
c)
d)
5.

Which would smell PUTRID?

a)

a dozen fresh roses

b)

a freshly laundered shirt

c)

baked apple pie

d)

a baby's yucky diaper

6.

When might you SPRAWL when you're at home?

a)

listening to music on your bed

b)

playing basketball in the driveway

c)

eating dinner with your family

d)

curled up in the hammock, reading

7.

What might give you a FRIGHT?

a)

your neighbor's new puppy wanting to play

b)

seeing a large, friendly cow

c)

your sister jumping out from behind the door

d)

reading your favorite book

8.

What might be kept in a CELLAR?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

Which one is NOT an example of FLUID?

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

Which part of this mango is the FLESH?

a)

the green, leafy part

b)

the outside part, including the peel

c)

the inside part that you eat

d)

the inside, seed part

11.

Which face shows surprise, but not SUSPENSE?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

Swans glide and elephants stomp, but _________ SCAMPER.

a)

snakes

b)

horses

c)

dogs

d)

mice

13.

This word is mostly used to describe something gruesome or gross.

a)

putrid

b)

grisly

c)

insidious

d)

apparition

14.

negative connotation: creeps up on your slowly and intends you harm

a)

insidious

b)

cauldron

c)

grisly

d)

bloodcurdling

15.

Who would use a cauldron?

a)

a group of silly ghosts

b)

a trio of unhappy witches

c)

your best friends on the soccer team

d)

your mom

16.

apparition:

a)

b)

c)

d)

17.

Which word would you use to describe a SCREAM?

a)

grisly

b)

sepulcher

c)

cauldron

d)

bloodcurdling

18.

fiend:

a)

an evil spirit or demon

b)

spooky or strange

c)

disturbing or gory; having to do with death

d)

to lay with arms outstretched

19.

Spooky and strange; this word is best used to describe something that is scary but also WEIRD

a)

macabre

b)

frightful

c)

eerie

d)

bloodcurdling

20.

macabre - The Master of the Macabre

a)

disturbing and gory; having to do with death.... Edgar Allan Poe

b)

gory and deathlike; Annabel Lee

c)

refers to the use of sepulchers; Alan Gratz

d)

your mom