await
Usage
What are other ways to say await?
The verb await (wait for) implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone. Hope implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. Expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble?
Example Sentences
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She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai, a friendly greeting, and woliwoni, thank you.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
There are four great kwai dogs who’d pull down the devil himself at a word from either of us—you saw them, Elvesdon.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram
Vocabulary lists containing await
Vocabulary from Readings 4, Unit 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 4, Unit 1
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