• Synonyms: alarm, dismay, consternation
  Meaning: fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• I looked about in consternation.
• Silent consternation prevailed among his audience.
• Joscelyn went but she left consternation behind her.
• The whole city was thrown into a state of consternation.
• What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon!
• But her appearance threw the ducks into the utmost degree of consternation.
• Jasper gave a whistle of consternation, and looked vacantly from the paper to Marian's countenance.
• All then stalked off in consternation, to get somebody as directed, without any idea of who it was to be.
• I made no answer; and I returned in silence to my lava seat in a state of utter speechless consternation.
• Then she fell ill with Crimean fever, and through the army the news was received with more consternation than a severe defeat.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Council of Trent, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Queen Victoria, License CC BY-SA 4.0