Do you remember how easy it was to use the term “et cetera” in school, when you had to write a paper, or you had to give a long answer that included a list? For example, if you had to make a list of things found in nature, you might write “dirt [comma] and plants [comma] and worms. And if you ran out of ideas, you would just say, “et cetera.” That was your way out, but it was also your way of saying, “There’s more that I should be writing, but I can’t think of it.”