Both Uses
apprehensive
in
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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- When Molly opens the bedroom door to Dina's and Ralph's tense and apprehensive faces, she smiles.†
p. 10.4 *apprehensive = nervous or worried
- None of us knows where we are headed, and • I think that except for the very youngest, each of us is apprehensive and fearful.†
p. 30.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)