Heroin is a highly addictive narcotic. A heroine is a woman known for her special achievements or the principal female character in a novel or play.
Examples:
- "News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes." (Dan Rather)
- The heroine of House of Mirth, Lily Bart, is one of the great characters in American literature.
Practice:
(a) Author Stieg Larsson describes his hacker _____, Lisbeth Salander, as pierced, pale, reed thin, and punk.
(b) When _____ was developed in Germany in 1898 as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant, it was believed to be harmless.
