Despite their fervent excitement prior to the election, the majority of voters had a tepid reaction to the news tha candidate had been elected.
In which of the following sentences does tepid have the same meaning as in the sentence above?
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Employees had a tepid reception to new regulations which would protect their jobs
but require them to work more hours.
The university president's remarks on student achievement were met with tepid
silence from his opponents on the board of trustees.
The instructions for the experiment stated that the tepid solution should be heated
slowly until it reached the boiling point.
The orthodontist instructed the patient to eat only tepid foods for a month to avoid
irritating her sensitive gums.
Ecologists discovered that the river contained tepid water because it was warmed by
the nearby lava flow.
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Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.