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  2. Foreign language anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Its main causes are communication-apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. [2] There is also a psychological component to foreign language anxiety. [ 3 ] Additionally, it has a variety of detrimental effects on foreign language performance, but both the student and the teacher can adopt strategies to minimize the anxiety.

  3. Glossophobia - Wikipedia

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    Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. [1] The word glossophobia derives from the Greek γλῶσσα glossa (tongue) and φόβος phobos (fear or dread.) The causes of glossophobia are uncertain but explanations include communibiology and the illusion of transparency .

  4. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  5. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    Agoraphobia is a fear of a situation due to perceived difficulty or inability to escape. [1] It is recommended that specific phobias be treated with exposure therapy, in which the person is introduced to the situation or object in question until the fear resolves. [2] Medications are not helpful for specific phobias. [2]

  6. Cowardice - Wikipedia

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    It would therefore have meant "one with a tail", which may conjure an image of an animal displaying its tail in flight of fear ("turning tail"), or a dog's habit of putting its tail between its legs when it is afraid. Like many other English words of French origin, this word was introduced in the English language by the French-speaking Normans ...

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1260 on Saturday, November ...

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    This word refers to a doctrine, belief or set of principles that political or religious officials expect others to follow (without question). OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give ...

  8. Oikophobia - Wikipedia

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    Oikophobia (Greek: oîkos, 'house, household' + phóbos, 'fear'; related to domatophobia and ecophobia [1]) is an aversion to a home environment, or an abnormal fear of one's home [2] and also a tendency to criticize or reject one's own culture and praise other cultures. [3]

  9. Netflix stock recovers from losses after technical glitches ...

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    Netflix's highly anticipated boxing event between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul experienced multiple technical glitches, leading to investor concerns over the company's ability to broadcast live events.