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umbrage

noun/ˈʌmbrɪdʒ/

C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister

Offence or annoyance taken at a perceived slight.

She took umbrage at the suggestion that her work needed supervision.

Similar: offence, pique

Origin: Latin umbra 'shadow'; sense of 'suspicion, offence' developed later.

Topic: offence in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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