Emotions

Synonyms for apprehension

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · Reason line included

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineEmotions

fearful expectation or anticipation

The student looked around the examination room with apprehension.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

dread

Same sentence, swapped: The student looked around the examination room with dread.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for apprehension as it is used in the sentence above.

savvy
pinch
tingle

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