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   suspense

   /səˈspɛns/

   noun

   • 1. a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen: "come on, Fran, don't keep me in suspense!"
   • ▪ a quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen: "a tale of mystery and suspense"
   • 2. the temporary cessation or suspension of something.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French suspens ‘abeyance’, based on Latin suspensus ‘suspended, hovering, doubtful’, past participle of suspendere (see suspend).

   Scrabble Points: 10

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