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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 21, 2009sedulous \SEJ-uh-luhs\, adjective: 1. Diligent in application or pursuit; steadily industrious. He did not attain this distinction by accident but by sedulous study from the cradle forward. This writing is clearly the product of sedulous art, but it has the flame of spontaneity and the grit of independence both as to mode and spirit. And so he reminded the legion that, even though his veneration of his country's flag may not have inhibited sedulous avoidance of the inconveniences of serving under it, he is a patriot so wholehearted that he signed the Arkansas law that forbids flag-burning. Sedulous is from Latin sedulus, "busy, diligent," from se-, "apart, without" + dolus, "guile, trickery." | |||||||||
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