Synonyms and related words :
agape, agog, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, arrestation, avoidance, avoiding reaction, awaiting, certain, circumvention, confident, debarment, defense mechanism, determent, deterrence, deterrent, deterring, discouragement, discouraging, dodge, duck, eager, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, expectant, expecting, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidding, forearmed, foreclosure, forestallment, forewarned, gaping, getting around, halt, hopeful, in anticipation, in expectation, jink, looking for, looking forward to, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, not surprised, obviation, optimistic, preclusion, preclusive, prepared, preventative, prevention, preventive, prohibition, prohibitive, prophylactic, ready, refraining, sanguine, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sure, the runaround, unsurprised, waiting, waiting for, watching for, zigzag