GRE Word List

SEDULOUS

involving or accomplished with careful perseverance

The meaning of the word sedulous is involving or accomplished with careful perseverance.

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consolean architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
enmitypositive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
glowerto look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger
haphazardmarked by lack of plan, order, or direction
feralof, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast
syllogisma deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable")
shavingthe act of one that shaves
navigabledeep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships