Art of the Personal Essay Selected Vocabulary - Williamson County ...

piqued
Offended, irritated, excited.
“Yet every now and then ambition rears its head
again in the retreat into which we were really
driven by our apprehensions and our waning
interest; for our ambition did not cease because it
had been rooted out, but merely because it had
tired—or become piqued, perhaps, at its lack of
success.”
Seneca, “On Noise”