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About Katie Heikkinen
Katie Heikkinen’s Harvard website.
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For some reason, people constantly misuse the word reticent. I’ve heard fellow Harvard grad students, federal politicians, and radio-tv callers all use reticent when they mean reluctant: “every since I was conned out of $1000, I’ve been reticent to trust salespeople.” Drives me crazy. So here it is, once and for all:
reticent |ˈretəsənt| adjective not [...]
