SAT vocabulary
Abstemious
Practicing self-restraint or moderation, especially regarding food, drink, or worldly pleasures
Example
"Despite the extravagant banquet set before him, the general maintained his abstemious habit of dining only on bread and water."
Etymology
From Latin abstemius, from ab- ('away from') + temetum ('intoxicating drink').
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