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Assiduous

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.

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Diligent 84% connected

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

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Diligent 84% connected

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

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Assiduity 74% connected

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.

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Assiduity 74% connected

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.

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Sedulous 92% connected

Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduo…

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Advertent adjective · 78% connection

Attentive; heedful; regardful.

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Anagoge noun · 78% connection

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

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Application noun · 78% connection

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or cor…

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Arrected adjective · 78% connection

Attentive, as a person listening.

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Assiduate adjective · 78% connection

Unremitting; assiduous.

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Attendance verb · 78% connection

Attention; regard; careful application.

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Attent verb · 78% connection

Attentive; heedful.

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Business noun · 78% connection

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether f…

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Cauterization noun · 78% connection

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

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Cautious adjective · 78% connection

Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary;…

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Ceaseless adjective · 78% connection

uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live wi…

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Circumspect adjective · 78% connection

Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.

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Conceptualism noun · 78% connection

the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the ap…

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Consideration noun · 78% connection

Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.

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Constant adjective · 78% connection

uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live wi…

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Contemplation noun · 78% connection

The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

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Diligence noun · 78% connection

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

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Distract verb · 78% connection

To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the atte…

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