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| He makes a lot of folks anxious, doesn't he? |
Anxious
Excited
Eager
Over a year ago, my Canadian friend wrote this is her
New Year’s email:
Well, it’s 2017, and now we’ll
see how your fearless leader makes out as the new President of the United
States. He makes me very, very anxious, that man does, and I’m not even a
U.S. citizen! I hope and pray for the best. These times are like
that so-called Chinese curse: May you live in “interesting” times.
Interesting times indeed. The year has been very interesting indeed, and that man still makes a good majority
of us anxious. That’s “anxious” use in the true sense of the word: there’s a
definite sense of anxiety.
I’d really like to smack the first person who used the word “anxious” in
place of the word “eager,” and got that definition accepted into common usage.
In my handy, dandy Random House College Dictionary dated 1984, there is no such
usage.
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