careless
what is the meaning of an improvident lot
This probably doesn't help, but these are the majority of the words on my vocab test this week. Crazy.
The word imprudent means being careless or acting unwisely. His imprudent remarks about his boss cost him his job. Building a full-scale model of an untested design would be imprudent.
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what is the meaning of an improvident lot
careless
The government is being improvident in dealing with the debt crisis.
Spendthrift is another word for improvident. Additional synonyms include careless and extravagent.
Ignoring the warning-signs of drought was the most improvident, cavalier thing that the government could do.
His improvident spending habits left him with no savings for emergencies.
it provide the same meaning but different spelling and pronunciation
dissipate improvident prodigal wastrel profligate squander
"[...]our improvident grandfathers, and fathers and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications - to put it plainly!"
This probably doesn't help, but these are the majority of the words on my vocab test this week. Crazy.
Equiano blames the illness on the traders because he believes their greed led them to overcrowd the ship with enslaved Africans, creating unsanitary and inhumane conditions that facilitated the spread of disease. He sees their focus on profits at the expense of human life as the root cause of the suffering and death onboard the ship.
We don't know a lot about his parents, but we do know they were rather improvident. John Dickens, with his wife Elizabeth's help, continually overspent his income, on entertainment and frivolities. He probably earned enough for the family to maintain a decent, though not lavish lifestyle and to have allowed Charles and his siblings good educations. Even after his release from debtors prison, John and Elizabeth were constantly in debt.