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Profligate 1100 Words You Need Week 19 Day 1

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Profligate 1100 Words You Need

Profligate 1100 Words You Need

/ˈprɒf.lɪ.gət/ (adj)

  1. extremely wasteful with money, extravagant, reckless, squandering, too generous
  2. behaving in an immoral way, low with morals, uncouth, immoral, wicked, dissolute

In reference to the urgent challenge of climate change, he says, “Human activity has become so great that our profligate use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere with potentially catastrophic effects for all of humankind.”

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/

Antonyms: frugal, parsimonious

Noun: profligacy


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