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   scare

   /skɛː/

   verb

   • 1. cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten: "I was scared stiff"
   • ▪ become scared: "I don't think I scare easily"

   noun

   • 1. a sudden attack of fright: "gosh, that gave me a scare!"
   • ▪ a situation characterized by a sudden and typically widespread sense of alarm or anxiety about something: "the event was postponed earlier this year due to the foot-and-mouth scare"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse skirra ‘frighten’, from skjarr ‘timid’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scarer noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   4 days ago · Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes psychological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.

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   4 days ago · Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. [2] Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Horror films have existed for more than a century.

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   4 days ago · The scarcity principle is an economic theory that explains the price relationship between dynamic supply and demand. According to the scarcity principle, the price of a good,...

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   4 days ago · Jamie Foxx has shed new light on the health scare that hospitalized him in April 2023, revealing it all started with a headache that escalated to a medical emergency.

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   3 days ago · Take the quiz. The meaning of MAKE ONESELF SCARCE is to leave so as not to be seen in a certain place. How to use make oneself scarce in a sentence.

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   3 days ago · /skɛər kwoʊt/ IPA guide. Other forms: scare quotes. Definitions of scare quote. noun. the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Scare quote." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/scare quote. Accessed 03 Jul. 2024.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Satanic_panicSatanic panic - Wikipedia

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   4 days ago · The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.