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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--prudential This week's theme: what does that company name mean? prudential (proo-DEN-shuhl) adjective 1. Of or relating to prudence. 2. Exercising good judgment, common sense, forethought, caution, etc. [From Middle English prudence, from Middle French, from Latin prudentia, contraction of providentia, from provident-, the present participle stem of providere (to provide). The words improvise, provide, provident, proviso, purvey, all derive from the same root.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "When every artless bosom throbs with truth, Untaught by worldly wisdom how to feign And check each impulse with prudential rein." George Gordon Byron; Childish Recollections. X-Bonus Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

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