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diligent (showing care and persistent effort)- She is an assiduous student who expects to earn A's.
assiduous = diligent (showing care and persistent effort)
- Our research team is talented and assiduous.
- She works at her job assiduously.
- assiduous research
- her assiduous attempts to learn French
- For two days after this Brunton was most assiduous in his attention to his duties.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return:J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ...And, if by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of Him who all things can, I would not cease
To weary him with my assiduous cries:John Milton -- Paradise Lost - Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore leg of his enemy...Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Then she got rid of the Homais family, successively dismissed all the other visitors, and even frequented church less assiduously,Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Eva stole away; but after that, she assiduously gave Mammy reading lessons.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband's shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- I tried to be as assiduous in their classrooms as I was with anything concerning my case.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- He bended his head sideways as he assiduously polished away with a napkin at the gleaming wood.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- No, madame; but they who so assiduously try to buy things cheap ought to permit others to seek more generous friends.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- He had collected four of her bobby-pins as assiduously as a squirrel collects nuts for the winter,Stephen King -- Misery
- Next noontide saw the admirable woman in her usual place in the wine-shop, knitting away assiduously.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- How maybe if she was assiduous she could free us both.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- It remained to ascertain whether the priests were watching by the side of their victim as assiduously as were the soldiers at the door.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
assiduously = carefully and persistently
assiduous = diligent (showing care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistence)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently and persistently
assiduous = diligent (showing care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduous = diligent (careful and persistent)
assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
assiduously = diligently (marked by care and persistent effort)