Word of the Day is: Trepidation

Definition:
1. A feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate because you think something bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
2. Archaic A tremulous motion
3. A nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

Examples:
1. In the first minutes, hours, or even days of fieldwork most researchers feel trepidation about being an outsider, a stranger on the scene … —Marie D. Price, Geographical Review, January-April 2001
2. This was an ambitious project, and a number of us felt some trepidation about the possible results. —Brian Phillips, New Republic, 13 Dec. 1999
3. I came aboard the 319 with trepidation, to join the lives of utter strangers, a man untried by the circumstances they had known. —Henry G. Bugbee, Jr., “Naval History,” in Authors at Sea, Robert Shenk, ed., 1997
4. He had some trepidation about agreeing to their proposal.