All 5 Uses of
apprehensive
in
The Giver
- But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I am.
p. 4.9 *apprehensive = worried about what will happen
- “I'm feeling apprehensive,” he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.
p. 9.6
- But it's the Ceremony that I'm apprehensive about.
p. 9.8apprehensive = nervous or worried
- But he was more and more apprehensive as his own approached.
p. 56.4
- "Move to the bed, and lie face down. Remove your tunic first."
Jonas did so, a little apprehensively.p. 79.2apprehensively = with concern about what would happen
Definition:
worried over possible misfortune