Michelle Kaplan
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Anxious to take a test, right?
However, I would say that anxious can sound a little bit stronger.
It's a slightly more intense word.
But here's the difference.
Anxious can also be more general or last for a longer period of time or be more geared to something in the future.
Right.
So it's just it's it's kind of it's it's like a slow burn, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So for example, I've been feeling anxious about our relationship for a while.
So maybe I'm in a relationship with someone and I'm not sure how if it's going well or something doesn't seem right.
So like I just have this underlying anxiety about it.
Yeah.
And you could say nervous.
Yeah.
And that's fine.
I mean, again, generally they can overlap.
But yeah, like Lindsay, you've already touched on that word anxiety.
I also I think of anxious.