Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the paragraph.
Not only had Lillian not known about her
Iriend's talent, but she had not known about her friend's modesty that bordered on
diffidence, and this deplorable lack of self-confidence had caused Skye to become a hermit in her house n
trying to avoid the
publicity.
The words modesty and
diffidence both imply bashfulness." However, in this sentence, diffidence is used to mean *lack of
self-confidence," while modesty is used to mean "