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Malaise
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is trepidation. Does it mean:
| state of dread or alarm |
| light, airy, or tenuous |
Example Sentences
- Troubled by what he saw as China's spiritual malaise, he soon abandoned medicine to pursue literature.
- This creates a sort of malaise because they'll never be satisfied.
- And he comes to grip with a malaise that has been with him since childhood.
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malaise
1768, from Fr. malaise, lit. "ill-ease," from mal "bad" + aise "ease" (see ease).
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malaise mal·aise (mā-lāz', -lěz')
n.
A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness.
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