Emotions
Synonyms for apprehension
Synonyms for apprehension: dread and trepidation. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for apprehension
Interchangeable with apprehension in this sense
Audited under apprehension's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one apprehension carries in that sense.
- dreadnoun, in the sense "fearful expectation or anticipation"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name apprehension as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- trepidationtrepidation is a noun in the sense "fear or anxiety about something about to happen"
The first group is filed under apprehension's own sense. The second reaches apprehension from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
fearful expectation or anticipation
The student looked around the examination room with apprehension.
The true synonym
dread
Same sentence, swapped: The student looked around the examination room with dread.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for apprehension in the sentence quoted.
- savvy
- pinch
- tingle
Where apprehension turns up in the game
apprehension is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where apprehension is the trap
- promisenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hope, in the sense "grounds for feeling hopeful about the future", with apprehension sitting one tile away.
- discernmentnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is discretion, in the sense "the trait of judging wisely and objectively", and apprehension is on the board beside it.
- rationalitynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is reason, in the sense "the state of having good sense and sound judgment", and apprehension is one of the three tiles that lose.
- kennoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is cognizance, in the sense "range of what one can know or understand", and apprehension is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play apprehension
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so apprehension reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. apprehension carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.