Synonym: apprehensiveness, arrest, catch, collar, discernment, dread, misgiving, pinch, savvy, taking into custody, understanding. Similar words: apprehensive, comprehension, apprehend, apprehended, prehensile, comprehensive, reprehensible, comprehensible. Meaning: [‚æprɪ'henʃn] 
n. 1. fearful expectation or anticipation 2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands 3. painful expectation 4. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
n. 1. fearful expectation or anticipation 2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands 3. painful expectation 4. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal). 
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121. The learned trial judge had an interest in the disposition of the case, which if disclosed, would have given rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
122. Ever since Thucydides observed that the shift in power from Sparta to Athens was the fundamental cause of the Peloponnesian War, scholars have watched such moments with apprehension.
123. Appearances, simply in virtue of being are not in any way distinct from their apprehension.
124. He awaited each new stroke with impatience and -- he knew not why -- apprehension.
125. But when the average price of the iconic baguette topped 1 for the first time last month, consumers from Picardie to Provence shuddered with apprehension.
126. It was intended to impede the apprehension of the person.
127. To cultivate a leader, we should build his superorganic characters, such as his personality, wisdom, judgment, apprehension, will power and kindness.
128. He spoke of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security.
129. Assumably, my tigress detect my apprehension, or another reason, I don't know.
130. The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.
131. On the other hand,(http://sentencedict.com/apprehension.html) the apprehension of time pushes literary activities from spontaneousness to consciousness and influences what finally goes into literary works.
132. Nevertheless, these apprehension are in of economic crisis puissant and oppressive fell to become the history.
133. They will begin to cooperate in the apprehension of these gangsters.
134. 'Oh,'replied George,'you don't be under no kind of apprehension; we're all square, we are.
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