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.

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betokento typify beforehand : presage
blighta disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers)
eschewto avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun
dismissto permit or cause to leave
shunto avoid deliberately and especially habitually
discordantbeing at variance : disagreeing
exorciseto expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
pedanticof, relating to, or being a pedant
lilliputianof, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput