Definition
anxious or fearful that something bad will happen
In a sentence
“She felt apprehensive about her first day at the new school.”
Similar words
- nervous
- uneasy
Why this word matters: apprehensive appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.