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Anxious

/ˈæŋkʃəs/
Feeling worried or nervous about something with an uncertain outcome

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Examples:

Her sisters were anxious for her, but her mother was pleased.

I felt anxious, in case he thought of Mary.

Her eyes were anxious, alarmed.

Etymology:

etymology
Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘troubled’): from Latin anxius, from angere ‘to choke’.

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