Word of the Day: STRINGENT

Inflexible and exacting

stringent (adj) - strict, severe, or limiting; tight or constricted [strin-juhnt]

BREAKDOWN: STRING- (tie, bind) + -ENT (state of)

• stringency is a state of restriction or rigorous standards

“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