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Vocabulary 9
Ms.Hahn RWS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| austere | severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: |
| 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: entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty: |
| mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal. hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc. |
| miserly | of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly. |
| parsimonious | characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy. |
| penurious | extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly. extremely poor; destitute; indigent. poorly or inadequately supplied; lacking in means or resources. |
| thrifty | practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: thriving, prosperous, or successful. thriving physically; growing vigorously. |