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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