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Embarrassment
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Embarrassment
/ɪmˈbærəsmənt/
A feeling of self-consciousness or shame, often due to awkward situations or social mistakes
Synonyms:
humiliation
shame
awkwardness
discomfiture
Antonyms:
confidence
assurance
poise
Examples:
She felt deep
embarrassment
after the accident.
His mistake was a huge
embarrassment
at the event.
Etymology:
Derived from the French word
embarrasser
, which means
to constrain
or
to entangle
, and first used in English in the late 17th century.
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