Word study: the latin root -temp- means “regulate,” “moderate,” or “time.” provide an explanation for your answer to each question that includes one of these words containing the root -temp-: temperance, contemporary, temporary. 1. if your parents encourage temperance, do they want you to be wild and self-indulgent? 2. is a contemporary artist someone who lived in a past era? 3. if your injury is temporary, will you feel better in a few days?

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.