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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abbreviateto make briefer
monetaryof or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy
graduatedmarked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement
figurativerepresenting by a figure or resemblance : emblematic
palliateto reduce the violence of (a disease)
complementaryserving to fill out or complete
immaculatespotlessly clean
busta sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast
hoaxto trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
lanknot well filled out : slender