phlegmatic /fleg-MAT-ik/ - 1. resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm 2. having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
I encounter this word fairly frequently, and every time I do I initially think that it means "sickly." Even when I remember that it's about temperament rather than health status, I rarely interpret it rightly. At least its own roots are just as confounding.
The quotation in the second example disturbed me, initially. I thought that it fit my mood a little too well. Then I googled the source, and it turns out that almost every statement in the color test fits me to some degree, which makes it, in its generality and to the (article, not book) author's point, a little like every horoscope ever written.
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