adj.
VERBS
▪ be , prove , sound
▪ become , get
▪ make sth
▪
My mother's presence made the situation even more ~.
▪ find sb/sth
▪
I found the whole evening deeply ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ acutely ( esp. BrE ), deeply , excruciatingly , highly , particularly , terribly , toe-curlingly ( BrE )
▪
a deeply ~ moment
▪ increasingly
▪ almost
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ potentially
▪ politically
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪
It was acutely ~ for us all.
▪ to
▪
This latest incident could be ~ to the government.
Embarrassing is used with these nouns: ↑ defeat , ↑ error , ↑ incident , ↑ memory , ↑ mistake , ↑ moment , ↑ muddle , ↑ position , ↑ question , ↑ revelation , ↑ silence , ↑ situation , ↑ snub , ↑ subject , ↑ U-turn