Word Roots: Phobos
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NBC News
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10/30/2008
10/30/2008
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Video MiniDocumentary
NBCUniversal Media,
LLC.
2008
00:02:43
Description
16 terms for different phobias, from "arachnophobia" to "xenophobia" -- derived from the Greek root
"phobos," meaning "fear" -- are shown in this NBC animation.
Keywords
Phobia, Fear, Flight, Arachnophobia, Spiders, Ophidiophobia, Snakes, Botanophobia, Plants,
Claustrophobia, Confined Spaces, Agoraphobia, Crowds, Open Spaces, Hydrophobia, Water, Astraphobia
, Thunder, Storms, Thunderstorms, Cynophobia, Dogs, Xenophobia, Strangers, Foreigners, Nyctophobia,
Dark, Night, Afraid of the Dark, Hemophobia, Blood, Trypanophobia, Injections, Needles, Autophobia,
Being Alone, Acrophobia, Heights, Aviophobia, Flying, Airplanes, Tarbophobia, Fear Itself, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself", Root Word, Greek, English, Vocabulary, Language,
Etymology
© 2008-2015 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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"Word Roots: Phobos." NBC News. NBCUniversal Media. 30 Oct. 2008. NBC Learn. Web. 21 November
2015
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2008, October 30. Word Roots: Phobos. [Television series episode]. NBC News. Retrieved from
https://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/browse/?cuecard=38692
CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE
"Word Roots: Phobos" NBC News, New York, NY: NBC Universal, 10/30/2008. Accessed Sat Nov 21
2015 from NBC Learn: https://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/browse/?cuecard=38692
Transcript
Word Roots: Phobos
Greek: Phobos= Fear (Originally: Flight)
Phobia
Arachnophobia
Ophidiophobia
Claustrophobia
Agoraphobia
Hydrophobia
Astraphobia
Cynophobia
Nyctophobia
Xenophobia
Hemophobia
Trypanophobia
Autophobia
Tarbophobia
Acrophobia
Aviophobia
Botanophobia
© 2008-2015 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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