Ch. 9 + 10
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Austere | having great economy |
| Avaricious | greedy |
| frugal | careful with money |
| Mercenary | greedy for self-gain |
| Miserly | careful with how money is spent |
| Parsimonious | overly thrifty or miserly |
| Penurious | stingy |
| Thrifty | showing care with how money and resources are spent or used |
| Adversity | great trouble or difficulty |
| Conflagration | a huge fire, an inferno |
| Confounding | puzzling |
| Cryptic | hidden, hard to understand, mysterious, obscure |
| Debacle | a failure or breakdown |
| Enigma | a riddle or mistery |
| Labyrinth | a maze from which it is very hard to extricate |
| Precarious | dangerous or risky |
| Quagmire | a difficult or troubling situation |
| Quandary | a dilema |
| Turbulence | great unrest |
| Turmoil | a turbulent scenaro or situation |
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