trepid

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I'll tell you more when I know more Now it was he who became trepid, not understanding.

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  1. adjective Timid; timorous.

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  • A little later, seeing the in- trepid warrior of eighty-four on her feet with the other delegates, the Empress sent one of her aides across the room with this message Please tell my friend Miss Anthony that I especially wish her to be seated. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • The search for the bear is trepid in itself, with constant elemental threats all around. —  DVD Times
  • Unfortunately, that's also exactly what happened to your trepid fashion reporter one lousy week before Fashion Week: I broke my foot (which brings up shades of a bad Bette Davis movie).
  • Gears 2 will fill you with the trepid squeamishness of a Saw movie, rather than soiling the couch at frequent intervals like Dead Space or Condemned do. —  Kikizo.com Video Games Website XML Feed
  • With that in mind, I was a bit trepid about "Cursed" but the Wes Craven admirer in me won over and I checked out "Cursed," their collaborative entry into the werewolf genre. —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
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  1. Latin trepidus, anxious.

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  1. =Spanish trépido =Portuguese Italian trepido, from Latin trepidus, agitated, anxious, from trepere (found only in 3d person singular trepit), turn, =Greek τρέπειν, turn (later ult. English trope, tropic, etc.). The negative intrepid is much more common.
 

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