worried
adjective
unhappy because you are thinking about your problems or about bad things that could happen
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Feeling worried and nervous
tense
adjective
feeling nervous and not relaxed, usually because you are worried about what is going to happen
on tenterhooks
nervous because you do not know what is going to happen
on edge
nervous and unable to relax because you are worried
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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