Apprehensively
Apprehensively adverb - With anxiety or apprehension.
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Synonyms for Apprehensively
Intently and apprehensively are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Intently" instead an adverb "Apprehensively".
Intently
Intently adverb - With great effort or determination.
Apprehensively and intently are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Apprehensively" instead an adverb "Intently".
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And a comic with a mailman looking apprehensively at a "Beware of Doug" sign, with Doug watching intently behind a tree, supposedly went over quite well- with guys named Doug.
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