Anxious and Ready

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Anxious

Anxious adjective - Showing urgent desire or interest.

Usage example: I'm anxious for my birthday party

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Ready and anxious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead an adjective "Anxious".

Nearby Words: anxiety, anxiously

Ready

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

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Anxious and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anxious" instead an adjective "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

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Norma in Fannie Flagg's small-town novels is a very anxious woman under normal circumstances, but when disaster hits she helps a lot of people partly because she can imagine the worst so vividly that she's prepared and ready to act.

Source: The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People

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