Reticent has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | He is reticent and he never speaks unless spoken to. | |
| 2. | We have been reticent, or maybe just slow, or maybe we’ve denied the changes that are going on. And so we’ve been slow to react to them. We haven’t been proactive. We’ve been reactive. | |
| 3. | While surgical masks are not so unusual in Asian countries, they are conspicuous in Western ones where people might be reticent to use them. |