What are some hard vocabulary words?

What are some hard vocabulary words?

As a follow up to our article on confusing words, here are ten of the most difficult words in English.

• Literally. If you know a language purist, watch out.
• Ironic.
• Irregardless (instead of regardless)
• Whom.
• Colonel.
• Nonplussed.
• Disinterested.
• Enormity.

What is a difficult word?

Words related to difficult troublesome, crucial, tough, problematic, arduous, onerous, demanding, severe, strenuous, ambitious, burdensome, laborious, painful, challenging, complex, delicate, confusing, grim, intractable, gargantuan.

How do you learn a difficult vocabulary?

If you’re having trouble learning a long or complex word in one go, try breaking it down into smaller parts that are more easily digested and memorized. This will make a huge difference for you. Not only are smaller parts easier to remember, but you might even find out more information about a word this way.

How many types of phobias are there?

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) identifies three different categories of phobias: social phobias, agoraphobia, and specific phobias.1 When people talk about having a phobia of a specific object such as snakes, spiders, or needles, they are referring to a specific phobia.

What are the 3 most common phobias?

So what are the 5 most common phobias?

• Arachnophobia – fear of spiders.
• Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes.
• Acrophobia – fear of heights.
• Agoraphobia – fear of situations where escape is difficult.
• Cynophobia – fear of dogs.

What is everyone afraid of?

What are the most common fears? “Fear of heights (acrophobia), closed spaces (claustrophobia), and fear of illness [nosophobia] represent potential threats to our physical safety,” Dorfman notes. The same goes for things like fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and insects.

What fears are we born with?

After the 90s, scientists have found that human beings are born with two fears.

• Fear of falling. Here the scientists have found that humans are born with the fear of falling.
• Fear of loud noise. This is also a fear type that we are born with.
• How to overcome fear? Fear is not an issue.
• Fear and Phobia. LSU.

What are humans instinctively afraid of?

We’re naturally attuned to the dangers posed by animals, especially our natural predators. Snakes are a major one, but humans are also instinctively afraid of spiders, hunting cats, and herbivorous animals that may have posed a danger.

What are the 3 fears your born with?

They are the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. As for the universal ones, being afraid of heights is pretty common but are you afraid of falling or do you feel that you are in control enough not to be scared.

What animal are humans most afraid of?

“This confirms the general agreement in the literature that snakes and spiders are the most intensively feared animals in humans with the highest prevalence in the general population.”

What are the 3 natural fears?

Spiders, snakes, the dark – these are called natural fears, developed at a young age, influenced by our environment and culture.

Are humans naturally afraid of spiders?

If we’re born with an innate feeling of stress toward spiders and snakes, that doesn’t account for why some people grow up to have a crippling fear of these creatures while others keep them as pets. Not all studies have concluded that fear of spiders and snakes is innate.

Do spiders remember you?

A spider will not remember you tried to kill it and return to seek revenge. Of course, the spider may remember that a particular area is dangerous and try to avoid it—especially if it has been an area where they didn’t get much food to begin with.