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worried over possible misfortune- She is apprehensive about her new job.
apprehensive = worried
- She is apprehensive about finals.
- I watched them go down the road, their shawls close around them, looking back apprehensively at us.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- ...then, heart beating fast, both excited and apprehensive, he set off.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- DANFORTH, apprehensively: What is it, child?Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I am.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- And then he looked apprehensively to the east.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- Behind her stood the Dwarf and the Skeleton, silent, shifting, apprehensive.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Thomas looked apprehensive.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game
- Jason sat silently, and as I looked at him, I had to admit he did seem very quiet and a bit apprehensive.Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift
- men are flesh and blood, and apprehensiveWilliam Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
- She was suddenly apprehensive.John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men
- ...Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry watched apprehensively as the pavement seemed to rise up past the glass windows of the telephone box until darkness closed over their heads.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Father Hooper at first replied merely by a feeble motion of his head; then, apprehensive, perhaps, that his meaning might be doubted, he exerted himself to speak.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil
- [Apprehensively.]Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
- "Move to the bed, and lie face down. Remove your tunic first."
Jonas did so, a little apprehensively.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
apprehensive = worried
apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune
apprehensive = worried
apprehensive = worried
apprehensive = nervous or worried
apprehensively = with worry
apprehensive = worried about what will happen
apprehensively = worriedly over possible misfortune
apprehensive = nervous or worried
apprehensive = worried
apprehensive = full of worry over possible misfortune
apprehensive = nervous or worried
apprehensive = nervous or worried
apprehensive = worried
apprehensively = with worry
apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune
apprehensive = worried
apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune
apprehensively = with concern about what would happen