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Jan 20, 2010

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Miscellaneous words

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asperity
obscurantism
sedulous
surcease
lineament

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with Anu Garg

sedulous

PRONUNCIATION:

(SEJ-uh-luhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Involving great care, effort, and persistence.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin se (without) + dolus (trickery, guile). Ultimately from the Indo-European root del- (to count or recount) that is also the source of tell, tale, talk, and Dutch taal (speech, language).

USAGE:

"Elizabeth Bishop was sedulous, pernickety, quietly determined; she would work on poems for years."
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 20, 2008.

See more usage examples of sedulous in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A beautiful thing is never perfect. -Egyptian proverb

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