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Conscientious Painstaking Moral Governed Morality Scrupulous Resulting Exact

word conscientious
definition (1) Governed by morality; scrupulous. (2) Resulting from painstaking or exact attention.
eg_sentence New employees should be especially conscientious about turning in all their assignments on time.
explanation Conscience and its adjective conscientious both come from a Latin verb meaning “to be aware of guilt.” Conscientious indicates extreme care, either in observing moral laws or in performing assigned duties. A conscientious person is someone with a strong moral sense, who has feelings of guilt when he or she violates it. A conscientious worker has a sense of duty that forces him or her to do a careful job. A conscientious report shows painstaking work on the part of the writer. And a conscientious objector is someone who, for reasons of conscience, refuses to fight in an army
IPA ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs

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