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| objection | |
| obsequiousness(noun, reserve, flattery, modesty, servility) | |
| passiveness(noun, reserve, flattery, modesty, servility) | |
| passivity | |
| perplexity(noun, difficulty, anxiety, confusion, doubt) | |
| poltroonery | |
| propriety(reserve, simplicity, virtue, modesty, humility) | |
| protest | |
| purity(reserve, simplicity, virtue, modesty, humility) | |
| qualm of conscience(expression, idiom) | |
| qualmishness | |
| quandary(noun, difficulty, anxiety, confusion, doubt) | |
| question | |
| quietness(noun, control, restraint, reserve, silence) | |
| recoil | |
| rejection(noun, difficulty, anxiety, confusion, doubt) | |
| reservation(noun, control, restraint, doubt, uncertainty) | |
| resignation(noun, flattery, modesty, servility, submissiveness) | |
| scepticism | |
| scrupulosity |
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