GRE Word List
APPREHENSIVE
viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future
The meaning of the word apprehensive is viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shambles | a meat market |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| reek | smoke |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |