anxious(ly); eager(ly) They are getting very _____ because the world market is getting more and more competitive. I waited ____ outside the emergency room during my mother's operation. Young people are usually ______ to try out new things. When I looked at the _____ faces of the children, I said to myself," I can't leave them to their own devices. They need me." Naturally we are all _____to know the result of the test.