[responsivevoice] frugality [/responsivevoice] [ froo-gal-i-tee ]
The word of the day is ‘frugality.’
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Economizing
2. The quality of being economical with money or food
3. Thriftiness
4. Sparingness
1. Hindi – Svalp vyayita
2. Spanish – Frugalidad
3. French – Frugalité
4. Mandarin – Jiéjiǎn
1. To what degree of industry, frugality, and sobriety can the Indian be brought?
2. At the period of my writing, no quality is more 101loudly commended than frugality.
3. Frugality is not only the basis of quiet but of beneficence.
4. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us.
5. She had to put the screw on herself to outdo him in frugality.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
moderation, prudence, thrift, avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, saving, stinginess, thriftiness, forehandedness, good management, scrimping, caution, canniness, abstemiousness, abstinence, austerity, asceticism, self-discipline, restraint, moderation, puritanism, monasticism, monkishness, meanness, tightness, sparingness etc.
spending, squandering, generosity, lavishness, wastefulness, extravagance, prodigality, intemperance, dissipation
Quotation:
Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come to the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Mardon
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