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THESAURUS

on tenterhooks

addled, agitated, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bothered, buffaloed, concerned, confounded, dazed, disquieted, disturbed, fearful, floored, foreboding, fuddled, in a dilemma, in a pucker, in a stew, in suspense, keyed-up, licked, misgiving, muddled, mystified, nervous, nonplussed, on edge, on tiptoe, overanxious, overapprehensive, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, quivering, solicitous, strained, stuck, stumped, suspenseful, taut, tense, thrown, troubled, uneasy, with bated breath, with muscles tense, zealous

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Expectation

N expectation, expectance, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, contemplation, prospection, lookout, prospect, perspective, horizon, vista, destiny, suspense, waiting, abeyance, curiosity, anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation, torment of Tantalus, hope, trust, auspices, assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance, expectant, expecting, in expectation, on the watch, open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation, agape, gaping, all agog, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation, aux aguets, ready, curious, looking forward to, expected, long expected, foreseen, in prospect, prospective, in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner, impending, on the watch, with breathless expectation, with bated breath, with rapt anticipation, arrectis auribus, we shall see, nous verrons, expectation whirls me round, the light at the end of the tunnel.