Heartland English School – Word of the Day

Theme: Halloween Adjectives

Word: demonic diˈmänik

Meaning: similar to a demon or evil spirit

Example: His ghoulish, demonic laughter frightened everyone.

Related Words: demon, demonically

A demon is not as powerful as the devil, but can be demonically evil and frightening.

Have a Happy Halloween! Mwahahaha!

Theme: Halloween Adjectives

Word: ghoulish goōlish

Meaning: evil, related to death or disaster

Example: Some people take ghoulish pleasure in frightening children at Halloween.

Related Words: ghoul, ghoulishly

A ghoul is a demon or evil spirit. Ghouls play evil pranks, and enjoy them ghoulishly.

Theme: Halloween Adjectives

Word: evil ˈēvəl

Meaning: menacing and malevolent, associated with the devil

Example: An evil spirit haunts that house, so no one wants to live there.

Related words: evilness, evilly

He masked his evilness with a friendly smile. Then he smiled evilly, and we were frightened.

Theme: Halloween Adjectives

Word: frightening ˈfrītning

Meaning: scary; something or someone that makes you afraid

Example: The most frightening movie I’ve ever seen is The Exorcist.

Related Words: frighten, frighteningly

Were you frightened by that movie? It seemed frighteningly real to me.

Theme: Halloween Adjectives

Word: dead ded

Meaning: no longer alive

Example: We used to believe that dead people could walk the earth at Halloween.

Related word: die

After you die, you are dead.

semi (adj) /semī/

Half or less than full (partly).

Examples:

• semicircle – half a circle
• semihard – partly hard
• semitropical – partly tropical
• semiconscious – half conscious or partly conscious

Thanks to Michelle Levesque for this week’s theme!

mis (prefix) /mis/

Wrong, incorrect or bad.

Examples:

• misbehave – to behave incorrectly
• misadventure – to have a bad adventure
• misdirect – to direct wrong (give bad directions)

re (prefix) /rē/

Again or backward.

Examples:

• restart – to start again
• retype – to type again
• reverse – to drive backward
• reapply – to apply again

un (prefix) /ən/

Not.

Examples:

• unfair means not fair
• unseen means not seen
• unheard means not heard
• unavailable means not available

Theme: prefixes and suffixes

Monday: non (prefix) /nän/

Not doing, the absence of, or not involved with the word it is attached to.

Examples:

• nonviolent – means not violent
• nonfiction – means true (not fiction)
• nonbeliever – means not believing in something (such as God)