GRE Word List
XENOPHOBIA
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
The meaning of the word xenophobia is fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
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| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
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| serenity | the quality or state of being serene |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
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| pore | to gaze intently |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |