from today's AWAD:
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.]
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It gives new meaning to "giving shade" doesn't it?
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