It’s Merriam-Webster’s word of the day for today, so here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective demure. I’ve always thought of this as one of those locutions the great Joseph Mitchell called “tinsel words,” but maybe students ought to know it anyway, even if just to understand the meaning of the expression “tinsel word.”
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