Years ago, in grade school, I had a teacher tell me I was "diffident" when it came to oral presentations, such as book reports. Diffident means "modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence." (For those of you who know me, I have certainly overcome my diffidence!)
Recently, I looked it up on my online dictionary and found this use-it-in-a-phrase description, which I find compellingly accurate for me then, as well as now: "Underneath his diffident exterior was a passionate temperament."
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