grafter vs profligate

grafter

noun
  • A corrupt person, one who receives graft. 

  • An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 

  • One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting. 

  • Someone who works in market stalls. 

  • a hard worker who puts in long hours 

  • The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. 

profligate

noun
  • An overly wasteful or extravagant individual. 

  • An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. 

adj
  • Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. 

  • Immoral; abandoned to vice. 

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