Explore uncommon phobias with this medium-difficulty vocabulary crossword designed for homeschool learners. Includes 16 words related to rare fears and their meanings.
Arcane Anxieties: Obscure Phobia Lexicon is a hard crossword puzzle with 19 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Arcane Anxieties: Obscure Phobia Lexicon
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- 1. Apprehension awaiting a phone call or ringing bell
- 2. Phobia centered on fear of gophers, rodent-induced distress
- 3. Nightly terror of sleep’s embrace, insomnia’s darker twin
- 4. Irrational fear of mythical forest sprites, etymology in ethereal
- 5. Venomous aversion to ants, tiny invaders of terrain
- 11. Paralyzing fear of developing a phobia—meta phobic cycle
- 13. Modern fright of tricksters in multicolor guise
- 14. Irrational terror of hands, digits evoking aversion
- 17. Dread of clouds veiling the sky, meteorological neurosis
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- 6. Superstitious dread of clouds symbolizing ominous portents
- 7. Ancient terror of one's mother-in-law, lurking kinship unease
- 8. Avoidance of physical touch, tactile terror rooted in psyche
- 9. Discomfort toward disorder or untidiness, an aversion to chaos
- 10. Fear of belly buttons, the umbilical nexus unease
- 12. Fear of gold, shimmering dread of Aurum's embrace
- 15. Fear of travel, synonymous with route-related anxiety
- 16. Anxiety triggered by yellow hue, chromatic paranoia
- 18. Fear of speaking publicly, derived from Greek “to talk”
- 19. Antipathy towards strangers, deriving from ancient linguistic roots
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