Apprehension
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
Example sentence: If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Dread
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fear greatly.To anticipate with fear.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A great fear.Somebody or something dreaded.A Rastafarian.
Example sentence: What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.