Circus And Carnival Vocabulary

noun a person who promotes or advertises something in an exaggerated or flamboyant manner

• The ballyhoo man was responsible for attracting a crowd to the event with his lively announcements.
• The ballyhoo man really knows how to get people excited about the show.
• That ballyhoo man sure knows how to hype up a crowd!
• She was like a ballyhoo man, always drawing attention to herself with her flamboyant personality.

noun a festive occasion or celebration, typically with processions, music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment

adjective relating to or characteristic of a carnival

• The annual carnival in town attracts visitors from all over the country.
• I heard the carnival next weekend is going to be lit!
• Let's hit up the carnival and have a blast!
• Life is like a carnival, full of ups and downs.

noun a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

preposition a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

article a word that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

• The tourists traveled to the zoo to see the elephant.
• Let's go check out the elephant at the zoo.
• I heard there's a massive elephant at the zoo, wanna go peep it?
• Sometimes in life, you have to see the elephant in the room and address it head-on.

noun a person who has a fear of clowns

• The coulrophobe had a fear of clowns since childhood.
• My friend is a coulrophobe, so we avoid going to circuses together.
• I can't watch horror movies with clowns in them, it triggers my coulrophobe friend.
• Her fear of failure was like a coulrophobe's fear of clowns, irrational but very real.