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SAT Vocab. 9
Mrs.Hahn RWS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| austere | severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding |
| 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 | a soldier who is paid by a foreign country to fight in its army : a soldier who will fight for any group or country that hires him |
| miserly | of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly. |
| parsimonious | characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy. |
| penurious | extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly. |
| thrifty | managing or using money in a careful or wise way |