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Northern Florida is temperate; while the south is subtropical.temperate = lacking extremes (in this case, in weather)
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Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve-thousand-foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts. (source)temperate = lacking extremes
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Eastern North Carolina is a beautiful and special part of the country, blessed with temperate weather and, for the most part, wonderful geography. (source)temperate = mild (lacking extremes)
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In the temperate zone where there is a season known as "fall" during which... (source)temperate = non-extreme weather (not usually exceedingly cold or hot)
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It is a climbing ornamental vine found in temperate latitudes, and came originally from the Orient. (source)temperate = (places) lacking extreme weather
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I am both Poles and the Equator, With no Temperate Zones between. (source)Temperate = lacking extremes
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It was an evening in summer upon the placid and temperate planet Mars. (source)temperate = having mild weather (not extreme)
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Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste? (source)intemperate = given to excessstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperate means not and reverses the meaning of temperate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits.† (source)
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And now, whetted intemperately by what he had felt, he began, at school, in that fecund romance, the geography, to breathe the mixed odors of the earth, sensing in every squat keg piled on a pier-head a treasure of golden rum, rich port, fat Burgundy; smelling the jungle growth of the tropics, the heavy odor of plantations, the salt-fish smell of harbors, voyaging in the vast, enchanting, but unperplexing world.† (source)intemperately = done with excessstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperately means not and reverses the meaning of temperately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Then appeared to me the temperateness of Jove, between his father and his son,[2] and then was clear to me the variation which they make in their places.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He said: replenish'd from the purest springs, The laver straight with busy care she brings: In the deep vase, that shone like burnish'd gold, The boiling fluid temperates the cold. (source)temperates = moderates
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'I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. (source)temperate = mild
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I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. (source)intemperate = extreme
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Now suddenly Bobbie slipped through the railings and rushed down the bank towards Peter, so impetuously that Phyllis, following more temperately, felt certain that her sister's descent would end in the waters of the canal.† (source)
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He came along Cedar Street, among thunderous trucks portly with wares from all the world; came to the bronze doors of the McGurk Building and a corridor of intemperately colored terracotta, with murals of Andean Indians, pirates booming up the Spanish Main, guarded gold-trains, and the stout walls of Cartagena.† (source)intemperately = done with excess
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