Autumn and Fall Vocabulary Words List for Kids

Fall or Autumn both are same season but with different names. It is a temperate season. It comes after the summer. It is proof of the incoming winter.

Fall is a season where we start to experience the strong wave of wind with dry and dead leaves. Tree branches are empty, they shed their leaved to make streets look.

The wind blows and trees start to shed their leavers. The dried and dead fallen leaves form a bed of golden sheet with many layers.

Autumn and Fall Vocabulary Words 

Following are some common words related to fall season:

  1. Abundant: If something’s abundant it means there’s plenty of it.
  2. Acorn: The tree grew from a small acorn.
  3. Autumnal: relating to autumn
  4. Beaver moon: first full moon in November
  5. Blustery: Not all windy autumn days are breezy, though. If an autumn day is full of strong winds, you would call that a blustery day.
  6. Bracing: Fall is full of days with bracing weather. This is the type of cold weather that makes you feel full of energy.
  7. Breezy: A breezy day is a pleasantly windy day.
  8. Brisk: If the wind or the weather is brisk, it is cold but pleasantly fresh.
  9. Crisp: cool and fresh
  10. Crunchy: Something crunchy makes a loud sound when you bite or crush it. Although we usually tend to think of foods being crunchy, autumn is full of crunchy sounds.
  11. Deciduous: falling off at a certain season
  12. Equinox: time when the sun in its movement along the ecliptic crosses the celestial equator
  13. Fall: the season after summer and before winter
  14. Fireside: To be ‘by the fireside’ simply means near to or next to the fireplace.
  15. Frost: When the air drops below freezing, it forms a thin layer of ice on anything it touches and this is known as frost.
  16. Generous: kind and giving or a large amount
  17. Golden: We can describe the yellow colour of the leaves as they start to die and fall from the trees as ‘golden’, as well as the glow of the hazy, autumn sun.
  18. Harvest: The process or period of gathering in crops
  19. Hay: cut and dried grass or other plants
  20. Hibernate: Spend the winter in a dormant state
  21. Howl: A howl is a loud, high pitched cry that can be made by a dog or a wolf.
  22. Indian summer: period of mild weather occurring in late autumn
  23. Invigorating: This is a wonderful word, and you can use it for all kinds of things! If something is invigorating, it makes you feel healthy and full of energy.
  24. Jacket: short coat usually extending to the hips
  25. Kernel: a grain or seed of corn, wheat, and other crops
  26. Leaves: parts of a plant or tree attached to the branches or stems
  27. Maize: corn
  28. Misty: This is due to a typically autumn weather known as mist. It’s caused by tiny droplets of water in the air, and it’s these droplets that stop you from seeing clearly.
  29. Moonlit: The light that comes from the moon is known as ‘moonlight’ and the adjective form is ‘moonlit’.
  30. Nature: the natural Earth and the things on it
  31. Nippy: If someone tells you it’s nippy outside, they mean that it is chilly or rather cold.
  32. Orchard: area of land where fruit or nut trees are grown
  33. Pie: fruit, meat or cheese prepared with a pastry shell
  34. Pumpkin: A delicious orange vegetable with a scary reputation, a pumpkin is a type of large, round squash.
  35. Quarter back: American football player whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play
  36. Reap: to cut, gather, or harvest
  37. Russet: This autumn adjective describes a specific color that you often see as fall leaves change from red to brown.
  38. Soggy: If you get a lot of autumn rain in your country, you’ll know that it makes the ground wet and soft, or ‘soggy’.
  39. Splendid: You can use this vocabulary word to describe a lot of different things, but it certainly applies to the brilliant colors of fall leaves! Something that is splendid is very beautiful and/or very impressive.
  40. Spooky: Something spooky is strange and frightening. It’s usually used to describe places such as old houses, dark woods or abandoned buildings.
  41. Squirrel: This adorable, long-tailed animal can often be seen out and about in autumn. Squirrels are small and agile and live high up in the trees.
  42. Susurrus: full of whispering sounds; used to describe leaves rustling
  43. Unpredictable: If something is unpredictable, it changes so often that you can’t predict what’s going to happen next. Autumn is a very unpredictable season, especially in terms of the weather. It can be rainy and blustery one day and sunny and warm the next.
  44. Vibrant: Although we can describe a lively person as ‘vibrant’, we can also use it to mean ‘bright and colourful’. So when autumn leaves change from green to yellow, red and gold, they look more vibrant.
  45. Vivid: Autumn leaves are vivid! This means that their colors are very bright.
  46. Vote: to participate in an election or to express a preference
  47. Winterize: to equip for winter
  48. Xenia: hospitality
  49. Yam: moist, orange-colored variety of sweet potato
  50. Zipper: device used to fasten and unfasten two adjoining edges of material, like on a jacket

We hope you’ll enjoy learning these words. You can also practice these words and others related to holidays we celebrate in the autumn season using our Fall – Autumn Season Worksheets.

Till then stay tuned to EnglishBix! for more vocabulary building resources.

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