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Assiduous Uh Sij Oo Uhs Adjective Constant Persistent Industrious.  Latin Assiduus

Front assiduous \uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\
Back adjective
Constant; persistent; industrious. 

[From Latin assiduus, from assidere (to attend to, to sit down to), from ad- (toward) + sedere (to sit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit) that is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, and tetrahedron.]

"The reason for his presence there [a Donald Duck statue in a temple garden] remains a mystery despite the author's most assiduous inquiries." - Jeff Kingston; Chiang Mai: Thailand's beguiling Rose of the North; The Japan Times (Tokyo); Jun 28, 2009. 

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