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: As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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: Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.