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caution
Close attention or vigilance to minimize risk:
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  1. Close attention or vigilance to minimize risk:
  2. A warning or admonishment, especially to take heed:
  3. Careful forethought to avoid danger or harm.
judgment
The mental ability to perceive and distinguish relationships; discernment:
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  1. The mental ability to perceive and distinguish relationships; discernment:
  2. An opinion or estimate formed after consideration or deliberation, especially a formal or authoritative decision:
  3. The ability to come to opinions about things; power of comparing and deciding; understanding; good sense
providence
(Person, proper, epithet) God, as the guiding power of the universe
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  1. (Person, proper, epithet) God, as the guiding power of the universe
  2. Skill or wisdom in management; prudence
  3. Care or preparation in advance; foresight.
considerateness
The characteristic of being considerate.
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  1. The characteristic of being considerate.
sagacity
The quality or an instance of being sagacious; penetrating intelligence and sound judgment
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  1. The quality or an instance of being sagacious; penetrating intelligence and sound judgment
deliberation
Thoughtfulness in decision or action.
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  1. Thoughtfulness in decision or action.
  2. Consideration and discussion of alternatives before reaching a decision
  3. Discussion and consideration of all sides of an issue:
wisdom
Wise discourse or teaching
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  1. Wise discourse or teaching
  2. The quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc.; good judgment; sagacity
  3. A wise outlook, plan, or course of action.
foresight
Thoughtful regard or provision for the future; prudent forethought
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  1. Thoughtful regard or provision for the future; prudent forethought
  2. The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
  3. Care in providing for the future:
forethought
A thinking or planning beforehand; premeditation
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  1. A thinking or planning beforehand; premeditation
  2. Prudent thought for the future; foresight
  3. Deliberation, consideration, or planning for the future; foresight.
care
Interest, regard, or liking:
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  1. Interest, regard, or liking:
  2. Attentive assistance or treatment to those in need:
  3. Upkeep; maintenance:
carefulness
The state of being careful.
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  1. The state of being careful.
frugality
The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
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  1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
  2. A sparing use; sparingness.
precaution
Caution practiced in advance; forethought or circumspection:
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  1. Caution practiced in advance; forethought or circumspection:
  2. An action taken in advance to protect against possible danger, failure, or injury; a safeguard:
  3. Care taken beforehand; caution used in advance
heedfulness
The state or quality of being heedful.
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  1. The state or quality of being heedful.
heed
Close attention; careful notice
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  1. Close attention; careful notice
economy
An example or result of such management; a saving.
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  1. An example or result of such management; a saving.
  2. Careful management of wealth, resources, etc.; avoidance of waste by careful planning and use; thrift or thrifty use
  3. Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor:
husbandry
The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.
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  1. The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.
  2. The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.
  3. Careful management or conservation of resources; economy.
concern
Interest in or regard for a person or thing
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  1. Interest in or regard for a person or thing
  2. Regard for or interest in someone or something:
  3. Worry; anxiety
conservatism
A political philosophy or attitude that emphasizes respect for traditional institutions and opposes the attempt to achieve social change though legislation or publicly funded programs.
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  1. A political philosophy or attitude that emphasizes respect for traditional institutions and opposes the attempt to achieve social change though legislation or publicly funded programs.
  2. Caution or moderation, as in behavior or outlook.
  3. The inclination, especially in politics, to maintain the existing or traditional order.
conservation
The maintenance of a physical quantity, such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.
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  1. The maintenance of a physical quantity, such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.
  2. The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them. Conservation is generally held to include the management of human use of natural resources for current public benefit and sustainable social and economic utilization.
  3. The official care, protection, or management of natural resources
discrimination
An act, policy, pattern of behavior, etc. characterized by such partiality
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  1. An act, policy, pattern of behavior, etc. characterized by such partiality
  2. The act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment, or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of their race, age, gender, handicap or other defining characteristic. See also reverse discrimination. The act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment, or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of their race, age, gender, handicap or other defining characteristic. See also reverse discrimination.
  3. Treatment or consideration based on class or category, such as race or gender, rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice.
cunning
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
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  1. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
  2. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
  3. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
vigilance
Alert watchfulness.
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  1. Alert watchfulness.
  2. Close and continuous attention.
  3. The quality or state of being vigilant; watchfulness
coolness
(Uncountable) The state of being cool, as in chilly.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being cool, as in chilly.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being cool, as in chilly.
  3. (Slang, countable) The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
calculation
The act, process, or result of calculating.
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  1. The act, process, or result of calculating.
  2. Something deduced by calculating; estimate; plan
  3. Careful, often cunning estimation and planning of likely outcomes, especially to advance one's own interests.
presence-of-mind
Focused alertness, quick-thinking resourcefulness, stability of thought and feeling, or good sense, especially in spite of circumstances which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging.
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  1. Focused alertness, quick-thinking resourcefulness, stability of thought and feeling, or good sense, especially in spite of circumstances which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging.
  2. The ability to think and act calmly and efficiently, especially in an emergency.
caution
A word, sign, etc. by which warning is given
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  1. A word, sign, etc. by which warning is given
  2. Careful forethought to avoid danger or harm.
  3. Close attention or vigilance to minimize risk:
discretion
The freedom or authority to make decisions and choices; power to judge or act
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  1. The freedom or authority to make decisions and choices; power to judge or act
  2. The freedom of choice and of action of a judge, prosecutor, or other public official, within the defined scope of his or her responsibilities. For example, in a criminal matter a judge may have wide discretion to release the defendant on recognizance or to demand bail in any amount, based on the judge’s view of the defendant as a flight risk. The freedom of choice and of action of a judge, prosecutor, or other public official, within the defined scope of his or her responsibilities. For example, in a criminal matter a judge may have wide discretion to release the defendant on recognizance or to demand bail in any amount, based on the judge’s view of the defendant as a flight risk.
  3. (Archaic) The ability or power to discern what is responsible or socially appropriate:
foresight
The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
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  1. The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
  2. Care in providing for the future:
  3. The power to foresee
foresightedness
The quality of having foresight
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  1. The quality of having foresight
  2. The prudent exercise of common sense when planning for the future
forethought
A thinking or planning beforehand; premeditation
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  1. A thinking or planning beforehand; premeditation
  2. Prudent thought for the future; foresight
  3. Deliberation, consideration, or planning for the future; foresight.
precaution
Caution practiced in advance; forethought or circumspection:
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  1. Caution practiced in advance; forethought or circumspection:
  2. Care taken beforehand; caution used in advance
  3. An action taken in advance to protect against possible danger, failure, or injury; a safeguard:
economy
Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor:
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  1. Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor:
  2. Efficient, sparing, or conservative use:
  3. A specific type of economic system:
providence
(Person, proper, epithet) God, as the guiding power of the universe
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  1. (Person, proper, epithet) God, as the guiding power of the universe
  2. The capital and largest city of Rhode Island, in the northeast part of the state on Narragansett Bay. It was founded by Roger Williams in 1636 as a haven for religious dissenters and became prosperous as a port in the 1700s. Providence was joint capital with Newport until 1900.
  3. Prudent management; economy.
thrift
Careful management of one's money or resources; economy; frugality
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  1. Careful management of one's money or resources; economy; frugality
  2. (Uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
  3. (Countable, US) A savings bank.
thriftiness
The property of being thrifty.
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  1. The property of being thrifty.
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  • He was a friend of Pericles and a, man of prudence and moderation.

  • This office he filled with great prudence and probity, removing many abuses in the administration of justice in Egypt.

  • The truly happy man must have Opovna es (prudence), which alone can save him from falling a prey to mere passion.

  • He seems to have acted with prudence and moderation during the conversion of his kingdom and did not countenance compulsory proselytism.

  • But it falls into the confusion of first saying that praise is for moral virtues, and not for virtues of the reason, whether prudence or wisdom (M.M.

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