SAT vocabulary
Reluctant
unwilling, disinclined, or offering resistance to an action
Example
"The council was reluctant to approve the costly zoning variance without seeing an updated environmental review."
Etymology
From Latin 'reluctari' meaning to struggle against or resist, from 're-' (against) and 'luctari' (to wrestle)
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