Practise word origins
Did you know that the rather odd looking word “glosso phobia” is the name given to people who have a phobia about speaking in public? Many of the words we use today have come from other languages. Languages grow, change and adapt over time. Many English words have Ancient Greek and Latin origins, even though no one speaks those languages today. For example, spiders are all arachnids and in Latin arachnida means “spider”, and in Ancient Greek arachne also means “spider”. If you are uncontrollably fearful of spiders you probably
suffer from arachnophobia. Phobos in Greek means “fear”. Can you see where the word “arachnophobia” comes from? We often refer to people having phobias about things. It means they have a fear of a particular thing.
1 Work in a group to do this phobia challenge. In the table the names in the first column have been incorrectly matched with their meanings in the second column. (Hint: look closely at the name of each phobia. Does the name remind you of anything? See if you can find it in the second column.)
Name of phobia bibliophobia octophobia
phasmophobia ablutophobia
What the fear is of ghosts bathing
the number eight books
phobia a fear or horror of some- thing. It usually appears as a suffix to another word that indicates what the fear is of.
SUPPORT TASK: Do some research in the library, your dictionary or on the Internet and find out what these phobias are of: claustrophobia, hydrophobia, frigophobia, arithmophobia, carnophobia, graphophobia, zoophobia
grandmother obvious impression synonym
public instead bedtime thesaurus
title
threading scatter needle
material antonym phobia complete
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