GRE Word List
UMBRAGE
a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
The meaning of the word umbrage is a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |