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 |
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| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| commune | talk over |