This week's theme: a medley of words. umbrage (UHM-brij) noun
1. Offense or annoyance arising from some insult. 2. Shade, as from a tree. 3. A vague suggestion or a feeling of suspicion. [From Latin umbra (shade, shadow), which also gave us the words umbrella, adumbrate, and somber.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=umbrage -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "A number of judges clearly took umbrage at McDowell's comments; Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman implicitly criticised him from the bench." Pat Leahy; Judiciary Considers McDowell's Watchdog Proposal; The Sunday Business Post (Dublin, Ireland); Jan 7, 2007. Sponsored by: Telemachus or the Memoirs of an Immortal God by Robert J. Thieblot. A good read for the intelligent. Check it out at http://amazon.com. Buy it there. DreamHost: Friendly managed web hosting. Friendly tech support comes standard with all accounts: http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?238296 ............................................................................ He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE) Share the magic of words. Send a gift sub: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Remove, change, or subscribe address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/umbrage.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/umbrage.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/umbrage.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
