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26 Phobias

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes an individual to experience
extreme, irrational fear about a situation, living creature, place or object.

Match the phobias with the things which cause them.

Fear of Water Fear of Cats
1 2

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Fear of Snakes Fear of Hair
a) Chaetophobia
3 4
b) Anthophobia

c) Ailurophobia

d) Zoophobia
e) Ophidiophobia

f) Aquaphobia

Fear of Dogs g) Ichthyophobia Fear of Fish
5 h) Cynophobia 6

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Ø Fear of trees is called
Fear of Animals Fear of Flowers
dendrophobia.
7 8
Ø Fear of horses is called

Equinophobia.
Ø Fear of school is called

didaskaleinophobia.

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