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improve your vocabulary with radheshy ( MANIA )

improve your vocabulary with radheshy ( MANIA )

Date: Oct 26 2007

Topic: Vocabulary

Author: radheshy

Lesson

Hey dear friends love you all welcome to this simple and easy but interesting vocabulary improving lesson. A few days ago I was talking with shanie, she has got intermediate level English but she says sometimes she lacks of words, she is trying hard to improve her Vocabulary And I think sometime else or other almost all of us face this kind of problem, don't we? Whether we'd be native English Speaker or not, Sometimes we want to say something but we don't find the exact word, isn't it? Somehow else or other we express ourselves. If you face this kind of problem then this lesson is only for you with some interesting words. again welcome to the lesson " Improve your Vocabulary with Radheshy "!

Today's lesson is about " MANIA " (excessive excitement enthusiasm; craze: The country has mania for soccer. ) There are so many kinds of people are around us. The probe into the complex organism called the human mind reveals how mysterious the ways of human nature are. Some develop MANIA, a compulsive or morbid preoccupation with some impulse or activity e.g., compulsive stealing is called 'kleptomania ' Did you know what's called " a morbid obsession with oneself ? a morbid compulsion to drink ? a mania for talking? " Here is the list of some interesting Manias :                 

1. Bibliomania -obsession with rare books                                      

2. Demonomania -a morbid delusion of being under the influence of an evil spirit

3. Dispomania - a morbid compulsion to drink                                                 

4. Dromomania -a morbid compulsion for travel                                               

5. Egomania - a morbid obsession with oneself                                                

6. Graphomania - a morbid mania for writing                                                   

7. Hypomania -a mild manic excitment

8. Kleptomania - a morbid compulsion to steal

9. Logomania - a mania for talking

10. Macromania - a delusion that one's body has become very big

11. Micromania - a delusion that one's body has become very small

12. Monomania - single fixed obsession

13. Nymphomania - excessive sexual desire in a female

14. Pseudomania - a mania for making false and exaggerated statement

15. Pyromania -compulsion to set fire for thrill

16. Scribblomania- a mania for making meaningless marks on paper

17. Theomania - a delusion that one has become a god

18. Agromania - an intense to be alone or put in the open

19. Necromania - an irresistble attraction to dead bodies

Now think which kind of mania you or the people around you have, start thinking that and pls add some more manias which you know now dear friend if you find these words interesting enough to add them to your vocabulary then try to memorise them and try use them so you could make your knowledge solid * Was this lesson useful ? Yes or No whatever you think pls let me know so i could make cool changes to the lesson which suit you. :)

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peilovel

Viet Nam

thank you, let's try this method with other words.

03:07 PM Apr 07 2008 |

peilovel

Viet Nam

thank you, let’s try this method with other words.

03:07 PM Apr 07 2008 |

Ange888

Ange888

Brazil

fine

12:42 PM Apr 07 2008 |

Ange888

Ange888

Brazil

I try.. I dont have graphomania

12:41 PM Apr 07 2008 |

nine simitcieva

Macedonia

what kind of mania is the one when somebody have fear from small space

 

11:03 AM Apr 07 2008 |

nine simitcieva

Macedonia

what kind of mania is the one when somebody has fear from very small space

11:01 AM Apr 07 2008 |

hemantacharya

India

IT IS DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER BUT POSSIBLE. THANX

10:22 AM Apr 07 2008 |

tina08031986

China

It's hard for me to remenber!

08:08 AM Apr 07 2008 |

tina08031986

China

oh! it's hard for to remenber!

08:06 AM Apr 07 2008 |

hemantacharya

India

NICE LESSON RADHE. THANKS

05:02 AM Apr 07 2008 |

like_snake

Malaysia

hello.

how r u doin? i wanna to improve my vocabulary and also make new friends .

04:44 AM Apr 06 2008 |

Viqi-w

Viqi-w

China

Wonderful!

Thank u ~

04:06 AM Apr 06 2008 |

irinaKr

irinaKr

Russian Federation

Very interesting – look like  russian word-formative

05:48 PM Mar 31 2008 |

paperdoll092201

Hong Kong

This is really helpful. You've enligntened me on this 'mania' thing ü

04:22 PM Mar 23 2008 |

mohamed moustafa

Egypt

very attractive lesson

01:20 PM Mar 21 2008 |

Jajani

Jajani

Sri Lanka

 Thank you for sharing ..SmileAs Wujunhui said you have created  a mania for learning English in me !

11:58 AM Mar 12 2008 |

Aleta

Aleta

Serbia and Montenegro

Laughing

04:00 PM Feb 29 2008 |

Aleta

Aleta

Serbia and Montenegro

In mine country we pronounce all of those "MANIA" indentically.Some of these mania are very interesting;) e.g.,dromomaniaCool...or demonomaniaInnocent

03:53 PM Feb 29 2008 |

aliaa

aliaa

Senegal

so hard to remember them any way i will try thank you.

01:17 AM Feb 27 2008 |

Barbosage

Barbosage

Brazil

just nice !!!!!!!

09:54 PM Feb 24 2008 |

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