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   eerie

   /ˈɪəri/

   adjective

   • 1. strange and frightening: "an eerie green glow in the sky"

   Word Origin Middle English (originally northern English and Scots in the sense ‘fearful’): probably from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, of Germanic origin; related to German arg.

   Derivatives

   • 1. eeriness noun

   Scrabble Points: 5

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