High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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The senator's speech on the floor was, by all accounts, a temperate response to what his opponents had characterized as an outrageous provocation. Where colleagues on his own side of the aisle had demanded immediate sanctions, boycotts, and even the recall of ambassadors, Senator Halloway proposed only a formal letter of inquiry and a thirty-day review by a bipartisan subcommittee. Reporters noted that his voice never rose above a conversational pitch, and that he made a point of thanking, by name, three members of the opposing party for their earlier contributions to the debate. Editorials the following morning were divided: some praised his restraint as statesmanship, while others accused him of an almost willful failure to grasp the gravity of the moment.
A reader hypothesizes that temperate means "warm and enthusiastic" (associating it with "temperature"). Which piece of evidence most decisively contradicts this preliminary meaning?
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