adj.
1 difficult
VERBS
▪ be , look , seem
▪ make sth
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪
She asked some rather ~ questions.
▪ incredibly , terribly
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
PHRASES
▪ make things ~
▪
He could make things very ~ for me if he wanted to.
2 not relaxed
VERBS
▪ be , feel , look , sound
▪
He always sounded ~ on the phone.
▪ become
▪ make sb
▪
He was embarrassed, which made him ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ painfully
▪
As a teenager he was painfully ~ in company.
▪ socially
▪
I was the most socially ~ person you could imagine.
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
They felt ~ about having to leave so soon.
▪ with
▪
She is ~ with people she doesn't know.
Awkward is used with these nouns: ↑ adolescent , ↑ angle , ↑ conversation , ↑ corner , ↑ gait , ↑ gap , ↑ moment , ↑ pause , ↑ position , ↑ question , ↑ shape , ↑ silence , ↑ situation , ↑ teenager , ↑ transition