Synonyms

awaiting

[uh-weyt]

a·wait

[uh-weyt]
verb (used with object)
1.
to wait for; expect; look for: He is still awaiting an answer.
2.
to be in store for; be imminent: A pleasant surprise awaits her in today's mail.
3.
Obsolete. to lie in wait for.
verb (used without object)
4.
to wait, as in expectation.

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Awaiting is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English awaiten < Old North French awaitier, equivalent to a- a-5 + waitier to wait

a·wait·er, noun


1. See expect.

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