self-care

[ self-kair ]

/ ˈsɛlfˈkɛər /

care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.

QUIZZES

Here is our second set of teacher-selected PSAT vocabulary words. Do you know the meanings of these terms?

Question 1 of 10

advocate

When men cease to rob women of their earnings they will find them generally, as thousands now are, capable of self-care.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)|Various
With sadness let us confess that our age is sinning grievously against this principle of self-care and self-love.
A Man's Value to Society|Newell Dwight Hillis
There was growing within his breast a self-care and a self-reliance.
William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke
For what are self-control and self-care, but the just fruits of intelligence?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865|Various

She had never learned the ABC of woman's wisdom, the steady cult of self-care, self-beautifying, self-refining.
The Brimming Cup|Dorothy Canfield Fisher

self-care

The care of oneself without medical, professional, or other assistance or oversight.