Parsimony (noun)
par-sim-on-ee
Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
Late Middle English from Latin parsimonia, parcimonia, from parcere ‘be sparing’.
Example sentences
“He operated a regime of such parsimony, we never had anything.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
