Language tip of the week: embarrassed

In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the

Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. In this series
of language tips to accompany the Real Vocabulary theme we
look at how you can expand your vocabulary in English by
using different words and expressions instead of core
vocabulary items.
This set of language tips will explore different ways to talk
about emotions. This weeks tip looks at the most frequent patterns that go with the
adjective embarrassed:
embarrassed:
Ive never felt so embarrassed in my entire life. Dont be embarrassed about
lying on a bed in the shop to try it out. They were too embarrassed to ask for
help. Most teenagers are deeply embarrassed by their parents.
Embarrassed is often preceded by an adverb:
I felt somewhat embarrassed by all the fuss that was made of me. Mike looked
faintly embarrassed.
Frequent collocates of embarrased include words for peoples expressions,
actions and gestures, as well as the word silence:
They stood there in embarrassed silence. He gave an embarrassed smile.
The only response was a few embarrassed laughs.
Did you know that Macmillan Dictionary includes a full thesaurus? This page lists more
ways to say embarrassed.

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