All 4 Uses
apprehensive
in
The Perfect Game
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- Behind one door, Jose found Angel sitting fully dressed on his bed, looking apprehensive.†
Chpt 2.14apprehensive = nervous or worried
- "Ask me again in six innings," he said apprehensively.†
Chpt 3.21 *
- It is human nature to be apprehensive about stepping back into the batter's box after being hit with a baseball, but Fidel merely tightened his grip on the bat: and hit Caldarola's first pitch into left field for a base hit.†
Chpt 3.24apprehensive = nervous or worried
- At first, the boys looked apprehensively at this outpouring of love and wondered if it was sacrilegious, until they noticed the canon himself joining wholeheartedly in the ovation.†
Chpt 3.30
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)