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• When Mom or Dad is snoring in the armchair, you might call that a 213
moment of slumber.
[-ed, -ing, -er n.]
smugness (SMUG nis) n. self-satisfaction to an annoying degree; complacency
• Jackie Robinson never showed any smugness for all his accomplishments in
major-league baseball.
• A good deal of smugness was shown by the mayor of Los Angeles when he
lured the Brooklyn Dodgers to the West Coast.

QUICK REVIEW #76
Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.
1. sedative a. oversimplified
2. segment b. complacency
3. selfishness c. doubting

4. sentence d. uncertainty
5. sentiment e. part
6. serendipity f. wavy edged
7. shun g. sleep
8. simplicity h. condemn
9. simplistic i. self-centeredness
10. simply j. opinion

11. sinuate k. plainness
12. skeptical l. avoid
13. skepticism m. soothing
14. slumber n. luck
15. smugness o. absolutely
society (suh SY it ee) n. 1. a group of persons forming a community with a distinct
social or economic connection; 2. the system or condition of living together commu-
nally; 3. all people collectively, or a particular strata thereof, usually upper crust
• The society of the Amish living around Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is distinct-
ly different from the society of Chinatown in San Francisco, California.
• Those living on a kibbutz in Israel live in a society where every member
depends on every other member.
• The society we all live in is known as the civilized world.
• Those forming the so-called high society live in a world of debutante balls
and coming-out parties.
[societies pl., societal, social adj., socially adv.]