Chapter 8 Who Can It Be Now?

267725655	apprehension	anxiety or fear about the future My grandmother felt ________ about nuclear war in the 1960s, so my grandfather built a bomb shelter in the backyard to calm her fears.
267725656	harbinger	something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner When it is going to rain, insects fly lower, so cows lie down to get away from the insects; therefore, the sigh of cows lying down is a ________ of rain.
267725657	ominous	menacing; threatening The rattling under the hood sounded ________ because we were miles from the nearest town and would have been stranded if the car had broken down.
267725658	premonition	a feeling about the future Luckily, my ________ that I would break my neck skiing was unfounded; unluckily, I broke my leg.
267725659	timorous	timid; fearful about the future Tiny Tim was _________; he was afraid that one day he would be crushed by a giant.
267725660	trepidation	uncertainty; apprehension We approached Mrs. Fielding with ________ because we didn't know how she would react to our request for a field trip.