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apprehensive

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Worried that something unpleasant may happen.

The new performer was apprehensive about the audition.

Dictionary practice example.

On her first evening at a bookbinding class, Mira was apprehensive about joining people who already seemed to know one another.