Word of the Day: Scare

scare / ˈsker

verb

1.      to frighten or fill with terror

It’s not the violence of the few that scares me, it’s the silence of the many.

Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968

noun

1.      an instance of fear

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe, 1853-1937

2.      panic in large groups of people

Millions of tiny caterpillars that shoot toxic hairs have triggered a health scare in the Netherlands…