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Choose the word that is MOST OPPOSITE IN MEANING to the word in capital letters in the sentence: "The HEDONISTIC tourists partied every night."

  1. self-indulgent
  2. abstemious
  3. heroic
  4. histrionic

Answer

B. abstemious

Solution

HEDONISTIC means "pleasure-seeking," so the most opposite is "abstemious." Watch out: "self-indulgent" means nearly the SAME as HEDONISTIC.

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