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SAT Vocab 9
Mrs Hahn RWS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Austere | severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding, rigorously self-disciplined |
| Avarice | insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. |
| Frugal | economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful, |
| Mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward; |
| Miserly | of, like, or befitting a miser(a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money) ; penurious; stingy; |
| Parsimonious | characterized by or showing parsimony(extreme or excessive economy ); frugal or stingy. |
| Penurious | extremely poor, stingy; parsimonious; miserly, lacking in means or resources. |
| Thrifty | practicing thrift(a savings and loan association) or economical management; frugal |