Discussion
He is temperate _____ his response to criticism.
Answer: D
The blank takes in: He is temperate in his response to criticism.
Temperate here means moderate and self-restrained. Adjectives describing behaviour take in before the area of conduct they describe: temperate in his habits, moderate in his demands, restrained in his language.
Temperate with, on and of are not used in this sense. With might seem to fit a person (patient with someone), but here the object is his response, an area of behaviour, which takes in.
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