Afraid and Prepared

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Afraid adjective - Filled with fear or dread.

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Prepared and afraid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prepared" instead an adjective "Afraid".

Prepared adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

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Afraid and prepared are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Afraid" instead an adjective "Prepared".

Nearby Words: prepare, preparation, preparing, preparedness, preparedly

He doesn't trust his good fortune; he's afraid of looking like an idiot, and half-prepared to hear that he's been taken for a fool all along.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Theater
At one point, Bill (the hero's Crazy-Prepared ally) remarks that he's more afraid of other survivors than infected, since the infected are at most predictable.

Source: Beware the Living
In the Agatha Christie novel Sparkling Cyanide, Sandra Farraday knows that her husband Stephan is having an affair with Rosemary Barton, is afraid Stephan will leave her for Rosemary, and is prepared to kill Rosemary to prevent that from happening.

Source: Poor Communication Kills / Literature

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