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apprehension

noun as in catching and arresting

noun as in understanding

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Example Sentences

Though shy at first, I learned to convey emotions without apprehension.

Winner was also left with no time to strategize with a lawyer before her speedy apprehension, she noted.

There seemed to have been a lot of apprehension about the blue wave—and we didn’t quite get the blue wave, if you will.

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It’s an inevitability of the pandemic, and it’s a constant source of apprehension.

At the time, there was mild apprehension—but much changed that week.

There may even be a physiological basis to our apprehension about the “other.”

Did you have any apprehension as far as playing Nancy again?

They never procure them without exertion, and they never indulge in them without apprehension.

Soon Arab-American and Muslim-American groups joined in expressing their apprehension.

Of course, there is plenty to celebrate, but there is an unmistakable sense of apprehension hanging over the anniversary.

The mother played her accompaniments and at the same time watched her daughter with greedy admiration and nervous apprehension.

Hilda took the letter with apprehension, as she recognized the down-slanting calligraphy of Sarah Gailey.

The apprehension that God will punish for not making fulfilment to him accompanies equally the oath and the vow.

He gave so violent a start, his face expressed so much of apprehension and dismay, that I stared at him blankly.

Not merely must there be a desire to perform the service; but there must be an enlightened apprehension of its nature.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apprehension, such as: alarm, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, and misgiving.

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

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