Word List: asylum, desolate, eerie, foreboding, haunt, ominous, supernatural, terror, unearthly, wraith
In the heart of a dark forest stood an abandoned asylum, its walls crumbling and its windows boarded up. The villagers whispered of the horrors that took place within its walls, and warned travelers to stay away from the desolate and eerie building.
Despite the warnings, a group of teenagers dared each other to spend the night in the asylum. They laughed and joked as they entered the building, but as they explored its dark and musty rooms, they began to feel a sense of foreboding. The air was heavy and oppressive, and they heard strange noises echoing through the halls.
As they continued deeper into the asylum, they were suddenly surrounded by unearthly figures – the wraiths of the long-dead patients. The teenagers screamed in terror as the ghostly figures closed in on them, their eyes glowing with a supernatural light.
It was then that they realized they were in the presence of a powerful and malevolent force – the haunt that had terrorized the asylum for years. The group tried to run, but the haunt chased them, its ominous presence filling the air.
Trapped and with no escape, the teenagers realized that they had stumbled upon something far beyond their understanding. The abandoned asylum was not just a desolate building, but a gateway to a world beyond the veil of the living, a place where the supernatural and the undead roamed free.
As the sun rose, the haunt vanished, and the teenagers stumbled out of the asylum, their minds forever scarred by the experience. They warned others never to enter the haunted building, for fear of encountering the same terror that they had faced.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Collocations |
|---|---|---|
| asylum | a place where people with mental or physical illness are cared for | mental asylum, psychiatric asylum, refuge asylum |
| desolate | bleak and uninhabited | desolate wasteland, desolate landscape, desolate city |
| eerie | strange and mysterious, often frightening | eerie feeling, eerie sound, eerie atmosphere |
| foreboding | a feeling that something bad is going to happen | sense of foreboding, ominous foreboding, dark foreboding |
| haunt | a place or person that is often visited by a ghost or spirit | haunted house, haunted cemetery, haunted asylum |
| ominous | giving the impression that something bad is going to happen | ominous warning, ominous sign, ominous feeling |
| supernatural | beyond what is natural or scientific, often relating to ghosts or magic | supernatural force, supernatural being, supernatural event |
| terror | extreme fear | fear of terror, terror attack, terror threat |
| unearthly | strange and not of this world | unearthly light, unearthly sound, unearthly creature |
| wraith | a ghostly figure or spirit | ghostly wraith, spectral wraith, haunting wraith |