365. Less confident employees tend to be ______ about asking for a pay increase, preferring to wait for their supervisors to raise to issue.
A. voluble
B. presumptuous
C. reticent
D. penitent
E. tenacious
366. Unsuccessful in her first campaigns, Barbara Jordan ______ , eventually becoming the first Black woman elected to the Texas State Senate.
A. persisted
B. gloated
C. retired
D. despaired
E. hesitated