Today's Word "Assiduous"
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assiduous \eh-SID-ju-wehs\ (adjective) - Persistently diligent and attentive at some activity; ardent.
"Had George worked as assiduously on his homework as he did on his video games, he would be in Harvard now"
Latin assidu-us, participle from assid-ere "to sit by or at something" < ad- "to" + sedere "to sit." The same Proto-Indo-European root developed into English "sit," "set," "saddle," and "seat," Russian sest' "sit," sed-lo "saddle," and the "-shad" in Sanskrit "upanishad" from upanisad with -sad "sitting."
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