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diligent
 
SYLLABICATION:dil·i·gent
PRONUNCIATION:  dl-jnt
ADJECTIVE: Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See synonyms at busy.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dligns, dligent-, present participle of dligere, to esteem, love : d-, dis-, apart; see dis– + legere, to choose; see leg- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:dili·gent·ly —ADVERB
 
 
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