Okay, let’s bend the old brains with weird words…
My attempt to draw “synesthesia”
Xanthophobia (from Greek xanthos, “yellow”) is fear of the color yellow. In China the color yellow was feared, specifically receiving the yellow scarf, which was an imperial order to commit suicide.
http://phobia.wikia.com/wiki/Xanthophobia
Yes, “xanthophobia” is a word I have never used in my life before now. I have no doubt that I will never need that word again in my life. You, dear reader, will probably never need that word either. But the derfy space-ranger part of my brain thinks it is neat that I was able to correctly answer a trivia question about the meaning of “xanthophobia”simply because my background as an artist who has shopped for exotic oil colors in artist supply stores helped me to recognize that the “xantho” part of the word meant yellow.
Are there other totally useless words that my space-ranger brain thinks are cool to know? Of course…
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Catch a Falling Star 
I knew that xanth is yellow but never thought I’d ever see it used. Xantho is Greek for yellow.
I am excited to use it. I have an old western tale that uses it as a name for a yellow horse ridden by the anti-hero gunslinger and assassin. It is a horse opera that I will never actually get published.
Have you ever thought of a collaboration?
Writing a western? A graphic novel? I don’t know. I have only ever done work that is entirely me. I’ve never tried to mesh with anyone who wasn’t an editor rewriting me.