I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ major , nasty , terrible
▪
a major health ~
▪ food , health
▪ AIDS , cancer , etc.
▪ pregnancy
▪ bomb
▪ terror , terrorism , terrorist
VERB + SCARE
▪ cause
▪ give sb
▪
It wasn't a serious heart attack, but it gave him a terrible ~.
▪ get , have
SCARE + NOUN
▪ campaign , story , tactics
▪
The ad uses ~ tactics to get people to stop smoking.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about , ~ over
▪
the ~ over bird flu
PHRASES
▪ a bit of a ~ , quite a ~
▪
I got quite a ~ when the police called me.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ really
▪ easily
▪
He doesn't ~ easily.
▪ away , off
▪
His name ~s off a lot of people.
VERB + SCARE
▪ try to , want to
▪ start to
PREPOSITION
▪ into
▪
They're just trying to ~ us into letting out the secret.
▪ with
▪
You don't ~ me with your threats!
PHRASES
▪ ~ sb silly , ~ sb stiff , ~ sb to death ( all informal )
▪
The very thought of flying ~s me stiff.
▪ ~ the life out of sb , ~ the living daylights out of sb ( both informal )
▪
You ~d the life out of me, hiding like that!
▪ ~ the pants off sb ( informal , esp. AmE )
Scare is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ investor