Wacky Words and Freaky Phobias

Dylan Blackwell, Reporter

  1. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau”
  2. Pogonophobia – the fear of beards
  3.  Agastopia – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
  4. Jentacular – related to breakfast
  5. Nudiustertian – the day before yesterday
  6. Quire – 24 or 25 sheets of paper
  7. Yarborough – a hand in bridge in which no card is higher than 9
  8. Xertz – the act of gulping down something in haste
  9. Kakorrhaphiophobia – the fear of failure
  10. Ulotrichous – person with curly hair