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Fear :: Fear (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn..

Apprehensively :: Apprehensively (adv.) In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise..

Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

Formidable :: Formidable (a.) Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming..

Phase :: Phase (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases..

Fearful :: Fearful (a.) Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened..

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Misgive :: Misgive (v. i.) To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.

Intellection :: Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive..

Realize :: Realize (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

Dim :: Dim (superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse..

Dread :: Dread (v. t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension..

Suspicion :: Suspicion (n.) The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence..

Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception..

Fear :: Fear (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness..

Fat-brained :: Fat-brained (a.) Dull of apprehension.

Lest :: Lest (a.) That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.

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