(a.) Preceding; introductory; precursory.

abusive actuarial prediction advance notice affect affection agitated agitation all-overish all-overs angst anxiety anxiety hysteria anxiety neurosis anxious anxious bench anxious concern anxious seat anxioused up anxiousness apocalypse apocalyptic apprehension apprehensive apprehensiveness augury bad baleful baneful black bludgeoning blustering bodeful boding bothered browbeating bulldozing bullying cankerworm of care care clairvoyance commination comminatory concern concerned concernment dark denunciation denunciatory dire disquiet disquieted disquietude distress disturbance disturbed doomful doubt dread dreary emotion emotional charge emotional shade empty threat evil evil-starred experience fateful fear fear-inspiring fearful feeling feeling tone forebodingness forecast forecasting forefeeling foreknowing foreknowledge forerunning foreseeability foreshadowing foreshowing foresight foretelling foretoken forewarning forewisdom funny feeling gloomy guesswork gut reaction heartthrob hectoring hunch idle threat ill ill-boding ill-fated ill-omened ill-starred imminence imminent implied threat impression improbability in a pucker in a stew inauspicious inquietude intimation intimidating intimidation intuition intuitive impression lowering malaise menace menacing minacious minatory misgiving nervous nervous strain nervous tension nervousness of evil portent omen ominous on tenterhooks overanxiety overanxious overapprehensive passion perturbation perturbed pins and needles plenty of notice portending portent portentous preapprehension precautional precautionary precautioning precognition precursive precursory prediction prefiguration prefigurement prefiguring premonition premonitory prenotice prenotification prenotion presage presaging prescience presentiment preshowing presignifying prewarning probability prodromal prodromic profound sense prognosis prognostic prognostication promise promise of harm prophecy prophesying prospectus pucker qualm qualmishness reaction response sensation sense sentiment sign sinister solicitous solicitude somber soothsay speculation statistical prediction stew strain strained suspense suspenseful suspicion sword of Damocles tense tension terroristic terrorizing threat threatening threateningness threatful threatfulness trouble troubled undercurrent uneasiness uneasy unfavorable unfortunate unlucky unpromising unpropitious unquietness untoward upset vague feeling vague idea vaticination vexation warning zeal zealous