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angst

noun as in feeling of anxiety

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They might have spared themselves a decade of angst, or at least found a better way to oppose him, if they had recalled that America’s founders disliked democracy.

Online gaming and video-watching are such a normal part of teen-boy life that it’s almost impossible to avoid finding a community that speaks to whatever flavor of teen angst a boy might be experiencing.

There is a lot of loose angst flying around by the end of the season, which is obviously not, or not meant to be, the end of the story.

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Instead of excitement and electricity there was apathy and angst.

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If the U.S. regresses in friendlies with Ecuador and Australia next month, the angst and despair that have hovered over the team most of the year will return.

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

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