1. Frugal vs. stingy

* frugal : careful when using money or food, or (of a meal)cheap or small in amount

* stingy : not generous, especially with money

* in the eye of the beholder : varying from persion to personm, not the same in every case

benchmark : something that is used as a standard by which other things can be judged or measured

anti-social : not socially-oriented

* skate around : to avoid mentioning a proble olr subject

* crumb : a very small piece of dry food, especially bre3ad or cake

* pull no punches : to tell the truth

* would not be caught dead doing : something that somone would never do

                                        smoking

* boost : to increase or improve something

* antidote : medicine

* miser : an extremely stingy person

* freeloader : a persionwho never pays for anything

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* solicitor : someone who solicit

* solicit : to ask for something, or for something from someone.

            ex) solicit aid from other countries. solicited me for advice

 

Using 2 for 1 coupons at a restaurant might label you as frugal.

If door-to-door charity solicitors throw rocks at your house, you're probably stingy.