Word of the Day: PROVIDENT

Cautious, careful, or economical

provident (adj) - having foresight; acting with care and consideration for the future; making provision; frugal [prov-i-duhnt]

BREAKDOWN: PRO- (before) + VID- (see) + -ENT (inclined to)

• providence is prudent care and management of resources or an act of divine care or protection

• providential means lucky or fortunate, as if from divine benevolence

• improvident means incautious, unwary, or thoughtless

“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.” —Samuel Smiles