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  • 91foreboding — Synonyms and related words: abusive, actuarial prediction, advance notice, affect, affection, agitated, agitation, all overish, all overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,… …

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  • 92fuddled — Synonyms and related words: addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, afflicted, apish, asinine, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, batty, beat, beclouded, befooled, befuddled, beguiled, bent, besotted, boiled, bombed, boozy, brainless,… …

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  • 93in a stew — Synonyms and related words: abashed, abroad, adrift, agitated, all overish, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, astray, at sea, balled up, bewildered, bothered, breathless, chafing, chaotic, clueless, concerned, confused,… …

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  • 94in suspense — Synonyms and related words: abeyant, addled, anxious, apathetic, apprehensive, at a loss, at issue, baffled, bamboozled, beat, buffaloed, cataleptic, catatonic, conditional, conditioned, confounded, confusedly, contingent, dazed, dazedly, dead,… …

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  • 95keyed up — Synonyms and related words: agog, anxious, apprehensive, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bursting, carried away, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, high, hopped up, impassioned, in suspense, inflamed, keyed up, lathered up …

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  • 96licked — Synonyms and related words: addled, all up with, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beaten, bested, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, fuddled, hors de combat, in a dilemma, in …

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  • 97misgiving — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, agitated, agitation, all overish, all overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensive …

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  • 98muddled — Synonyms and related words: addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, anarchic, arsy varsy, ass backwards, at a loss, baffled, balled up, bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted, blear witted, blind drunk, bollixed… …

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  • 99mystified — Synonyms and related words: addled, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, buffaloed, confounded, dazed, floored, fuddled, in a dilemma, in suspense, licked, muddled, nonplussed …

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  • 100nervous — Synonyms and related words: acid, agitable, agitated, all nerves, all overish, allergic, anaphylactic, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, bashful, biting, bothered, concerned, corrosive, cowardly, critical, cutting, delicate, difficult,… …

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