Write It Right: Anticipate for Expect.

“Anticipate for Expect. ‘I anticipate trouble.” To anticipate is to act on an expectation in a way to promote or forestall the event expected.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.

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