scare story

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scare story

A story or rumor that makes something seem more serious, dreadful, or terrifying than it really is. Every year around Halloween, there's some scare story in the news about razor blades being found in candy. You just can't listen to all the scare stories people love to spread or you'd end up being afraid of everything!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian
Anup	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam
Phillis	FIL-is	English
Nona	['nəunə]
Chinweike	-	Western African, Igbo
ÁSa	-	Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic, Faroese