✅ Thrift means cautious financial management or frugality (Thrift led him to mend his clothes rather than buy new ones).

✅ Prudence means cautious and wise financial management (Prudence meant that she was able to save up a lot of money).

✅ Both of these terms refer to not being wasteful or careless with money.

✅ Prudence emphasizes not being wasteful, particularly with the goal of preserving the money you have. Thrift emphasizes being frugal, particularly with the goal of saving money.

✅ Diagonal means sloping or joining two opposite corners that don’t share a side (a diagonal stripe).

✅ Oblique also means sloping or slanted (Oblique lines filled in the background).

✅ Both of these terms refer to things that are straight but not perpendicular.

✅ Oblique can also mean not parallel, and more metaphorically it can mean indirect or underhand (She spoke in oblique ways about the problem).

✅ Skip means to move in a light way, hopping or leaping forward with each foot (I skipped to the bakery).

✅ Bound means to move by leaping or jumping (The cat bounded from one surface to the next).

✅ Both of these words mean to move lightly and springily.

✅ Bound suggests larger or longer leaps than skip (I saw children skipping in the park; The dog bounded across the field).