Main entry: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
Definition: fearful expectation or anticipation
Usage: the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
Definition: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
Usage: I fear the winters in Moscow; We should not fear the Communists!
Main entry: horrendous, horrific, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, frightening, fearful, fearsome, terrible
Definition: causing fear or dread or terror
Usage: the awful war; an awful risk; dire news; a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked; the dread presence of the headmaster; polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was; a dreadful storm; a fearful howling; horrendous explosions shook the city; a terrible curse