aquiver

[uh-kwiv-er] Origin

a·quiv·er

[uh-kwiv-er]
adjective
in a state of trepidation or vibrant agitation; trembling; quivering (usually used predicatively): The bamboo thicket was aquiver with small birds and insects. The exciting news set me aquiver.

Origin:
1880–85; a-1 + quiver1
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Aquiver is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

aquiver
1883, from a- (1) + quiver (v.).
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