1. anglophobia: (a) adherence or attachment to English customs or ideas; (b) fear of being in buildings with corners; (c) a person who is averse to or dislikes England and things English; (d) an abnormal and persistent fear of white inhabitants of the United States of non-Hispanic descent.
2. hydrophobia: (a) fear of multiheaded snakes; (b) rabies, an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus; (c) fear of swimming; (d) fear of lifeguards.
3. triskaidekaphobia: (a) fear of the number 13; (b) fear of hair; (c) an unusual fear of things appearing in units of three; (d) fear of whole-wheat crackers.
4. ailurophobia : (a) fear of cats; (b) to give physical or emotional pain, discomfort, or trouble to; (c) a lazy stupid person; (d) fear of people lying in wait especially for an evil purpose.
5. alektorophobia : (a) fear of luck and especially of bad luck; (b) fear of chickens; (c) fear of riding in an electric car; (d) aphasia marked by loss of ability to read.
6. anuptaphobia: (a) fear of staying single; (b) fear of marriage; (c) a morbid fear of amphibians; (d) fear of nuptalian creatures (creatures that move about at night).
7. ophthalmophobia: (a) an aversion to eye exams; (b) fear of snakes; (c) fear of being stared at; (d) the quality or state of being mentally obtuse.
8. onomatophobia: (a) fear of hearing a certain word or of names; (b) a meaningless word coined by a psychotic; (c) apprehension caused by the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss); (d) a persistent fear of mathematics.
9. neophobia: (a) a former liberal espousing political conservatism; (b) an absorbing or pervasive dislike of infants; (c) fear of anything new; (d) how Agent Smith feels about "the One."
10. verbophobia: (a) one who stresses words above substance or reality; (b) impaired by wordiness; (c) continual repetition of stereotyped phrases (as in some forms of mental illness); (d) fear of words.
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