#text registry

• Awkwardness — A state of embarrassment, awkwardness, difficulty, perplexity, or deep hesitation in which a person finds themselves when faced with a difficult choice or delicate social situation (from French embarras). It describes a short-lived emotional block.
• To embarrass — To embarrass or put someone in a predicament, an awkward, or difficult situation; to intimidate, confuse, or nonplus. Reflexively, it means to become embarrassed, confused, or awkward in a social context.
• Embarrassing — Putting someone in a predicament, causing embarrassment, mental discomfort, perplexity, or a state of social awkwardness; embarrassing, awkward, or inconvenient (from French embarrassant). It describes a situation or silence that disrupts an interaction.
• To annoy — To annoy, bother, bore, or pester someone with too many demands or useless talk (borrowed as a jargon variant from French embêter). In linguistic databases, it is preserved as an element of literary slang or upper-class historic colloquialism.
• Annoying — Annoying, boring, pestering, or bothersome; causing irritation or mild vexation (from French embêtant). It represents a literary loanword or jargon element historically used in upper-class colloquial speech or parodic texts.