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aldersprigI took this vocabulary test, and was, being me, a bit miffed at the words I didn't know. But I wrote them down, so I have a new word-a-day for the next month!
Today's word is sedulous:
1: involving or accomplished with careful perseverance
2: diligent in application or pursuit
Origin of SEDULOUS
Latin sedulus, from sedulo sincerely, diligently, from sed-, se without + dolus guile — more at suicide
First Known Use: 1540
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedulous
So, taking off from our earlier story...
One of Cash's teachers at the Tower had called him "sedulous," which had annoyed him until he'd found the dictionary section of the library. He wasn't a quick learner, but he was dogged, stubbornly sticking to a subject until he'd mastered it.
Warfare had not been a subject that had particularly interested him...
Today's word is sedulous:
1: involving or accomplished with careful perseverance
2: diligent in application or pursuit
Origin of SEDULOUS
Latin sedulus, from sedulo sincerely, diligently, from sed-, se without + dolus guile — more at suicide
First Known Use: 1540
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedulous
So, taking off from our earlier story...
One of Cash's teachers at the Tower had called him "sedulous," which had annoyed him until he'd found the dictionary section of the library. He wasn't a quick learner, but he was dogged, stubbornly sticking to a subject until he'd mastered it.
Warfare had not been a subject that had particularly interested him...
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Date: 2011-08-07 12:23 am (UTC)Now I know sedulous!
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