Description
This week is a special and scary week- it's Halloween! Tim loves Halloween, so this week he brings you a real-life ghost story told by a close friend. This episode has a lot of advanced vocabulary, much of it connected with ghosts. To get the maximum effect from this episode, learn the advanced vocabulary from the list below- and then listen with the lights turned off!
1 recollect = remember
2 spooky = scary (usually because of ghosts)
3, 4 tumultuous, fraught (/frawt/) = chaotic, complicated (relationships)
5 peninsula = piece of land with water on three sides (e.g., Florida or Korea)
6 desolate = empty and depressing (land, places)
7, 8 marsh, swamp = land with lots of water on it
9 windswept = affected by heavy wind (land, territory- a windswept beach)
10 flanked by = if a road is flanked by trees, there are trees on both sides of the road
11 performer = actor or singer
12 creep someone out = to make someone afraid
13 orchard = land where fruit trees grow, e.g. apple orchard, cherry orchard
14 burial grounds = cemetery, graveyard (for Native Americans)
15 suffice it to say = it's enough to say
16 fraught = complicated, difficult (relationships)
17 tangle = chaotic mix of different objects
18 garb = clothing
19 eyepatch = piece of cloth worn to protect an eye- pirates wear eye patches
20 dilapidated = in bad condition, not taken care of (buildings)
21 hazy = difficult to see through (for example, some beers are hazy)
22 cobwebs = spiderwebs
23 barn = building on a farm where animals live or food is kept
24 bee = a black and yellow flying insect
25 hive of bees = structure built by bees that they live in; hives contain honey
26 general store = old-fashioned store that sells food, tools and clothing- common in the US until the 1950s- General store - Wikipedia
27 skittering = moving quickly and noisily across a hard surface
28 crescendo = climax, most dramatic moment
29 vaporize = to disappear
30 apparition = a ghost
31 taxing = requiring a large effort
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