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trepidation

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“I feel a shaking of the ground I stand on,” Carson tells Mrs. Hughes with trepidation.

“I brought it with no small degree of trepidation,” Kucinich recalled in a lengthy phone conversation with the Daily Beast.

Less than a month before Election Day, Pressler seems to be feeling some trepidation about his movement in the polls.

Asked whether he had any trepidation about joining a show about a bunch of Hollywood brats, Johnson said yes.

Hope and trepidation persists that the twins presence indicates the coming of an Avengers/X-Men crossover film.

Two persons watched over her, and covered the mistakes she made in her nervous trepidation.

Sylvia had never been called Miss Garrison before, and it was not without trepidation that she heard herself so addressed.

I was very much in earnest, and I waited with nervous trepidation to see the effect of my peroration.

The door was open on to the landing, and I crossed the room, not without some inward trepidation, and went out.

Her mind was in a ferment of elation and doubt, of trepidation and joyful anticipation.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trepidation, such as: alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquiet, and dread.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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