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Scare quotes — is a general term for quotation marks used for purposes other than to identify a direct quotation. For example, authors might use quotation marks to highlight special terminology, to distance the writer from the material being reported, to… … Wikipedia
scare — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, nasty, terrible ▪ a major health scare ▪ food, health ▪ AIDS … Collocations dictionary
scare — [[t]ske͟ə(r)[/t]] scares, scaring, scared 1) VERB If something scares you, it frightens or worries you. [V n] You re scaring me... [V n] What scares me most is that I m going to end up not being married... [V n … English dictionary
scare — 01. My son is [scared] of the dark, so he sleeps with a light on. 02. She has been really [scared] of bees ever since she got stung. 03. He fell out of the tree, and got a bad [scare], but luckily he didn t break anything. 04. The children had… … Grammatical examples in English
2007 Boston bomb scare — LED advertisement resembling the cartoon character Ignignokt from Aqua Teen Hunger Force giving the middle finger, as seen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Identical devices were removed by the Boston Police Department throughout the … Wikipedia
Green Scare — The term Green Scare, alluding to the Red Scares, periods of fear over communist infiltration of U.S. society, is a term popularized by environmental activists to refer to legal action by the U.S. government against the radical environmentalist… … Wikipedia
Don't Scare the Hare — Genre Game show Presented by Jason Bradbury Narrated by Sue Perkins Theme music composer Marc Sylvan Richard Jacques … Wikipedia
Red Scare — Red Menace redirects here. For the 2007 Wildstorm Productions comic book series see Red Menace (comics).The term Red Scare has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti Communism in United States history: first from 1917… … Wikipedia
You Can't Scare Me! — infobox Book | | name = You Can t Scare Me! orig title = translator = author = R. L. Stine cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Goosebumps classification = fiction genre = Horror fiction, Children s literature… … Wikipedia
Normal People Scare Me — Cover of DVD Directed by Keri Bowers, Taylor Cross Produced by Joey Travolta … Wikipedia