the mice showed an odd reluctance to eat the cheese we had put out for them
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disinclination, hesitance, hesitancy, reticence, unwillingness;
assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conviction, positiveness, sureness, surety;
faltering, fence-sitting, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, staggering, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling);
distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, incertitude, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainness, uncertainty;
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