| Front | sedulous \SEJ-uh-luhs\ |
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| Back | adjective Involving great care, effort, and persistence. [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).] "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. |
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