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trepidation
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  • With trepidation, he had resolved to go to Sugamo to stand before these men.  (source)
    trepidation = fear or anxiety about what will happen
  • After seven months, Wes met his graduation from Job Corps with as much trepidation as excitement.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
  • we walked home in trepidation, certain that Assef and his friends would ambush us every time we turned a corner.  (source)
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  • In some trepidation, Harry opened the last parcel on his camp bed.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
  • Thomas felt one final moment of trepidation, a quick slice of fear through his body, and then it vanished.  (source)
  • "Hello, Reverend," I said, swallowing my trepidation.  (source)
    trepidation = fear
  • Descending below ground level, Langdon fought a rising trepidation.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
  • With growing trepidation she walked down to the stairwell,  (source)
  • a world whose inhabitants walked in trepidation, in fear of opening up.  (source)
  • PARRIS, with trepidation—and resentment: I hope you do not mean we go to Satan here!  (source)
  • I asked with slightly more trepidation.  (source)
  • She could see the trepidation even on Basta's face, although he was doing his best to hide it by assuming a particularly bored expression.  (source)
  • "I'm in a hurry at the moment," I tell him, "but I'd like to come back and hear you play again." "Oh, all right," he says, smiling appreciatively but with trepidation.  (source)
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