LekhoriLekhoriUnwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
They are slow and reticent, and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).
While many uncomfortable components of the Holocaust have been analyzed in minute detail, the rape of Jewish women during this era persists as a subject that scholars and victims alike are reticent to explore.
Latin reticēns, present participle of reticeō (“to keep silence”).
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