What does assiduous mean?
Word: Assiduous
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Assiduous means steady and thorough in your work, keeping up the effort and paying close attention.
Synonyms: diligent, hard-working
Antonyms: negligent
How do you spell assiduous?
Syllables: as - sid - u - ous
Tricky part: After the d comes uou, three vowels in a row, so assidious and assiduos are wrong.
Watch out for: assidious, assiduos
Memory tip: Continuous ends the same way, and assiduous effort is continuous effort.
Assiduous in a sentence
Example 1: The assiduous team of volunteers cleaned the whole beach by noon.
Example 2: Years of assiduous research went into that dictionary.
Example 3: Only assiduous revision will get you through so many chapters.
Fun Fact
Its Latin root meant sitting down to a task, which is a fair picture of a student who stays at the desk until the work is done.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word assiduous as used in the sentence:
Her assiduous practice on the violin won her a place in the state orchestra.
a) cheerful
b) costly
c) careless
d) constant
Show answer
c) careless. Careless practice is the reverse of steady, thorough work.
Word Makeup
Only one of these words becomes an adverb when ly is added with no other change. Choose it:
ly
a) assiduous
b) gentle
c) happy
d) true
Show answer
a) assiduous. Assiduous simply adds ly; gentle gives gently, happy gives happily and true gives truly.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The assidduous young gardener watered every seedling at dawn and kept careful notes on its growth throughout the long, hot summer.
a) throughout
b) gardener
c) seedling
d) assidduous
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d) assidduous. Only one d stands in the middle of this word.
Mingle-Mangle
Unscramble the jumbled word in the sentence and choose the correct word:
An dusuasois student, Tara noted down every new word she met.
a) ambiguous
b) audacious
c) arduous
d) assiduous
Show answer
d) assiduous. Three s's are among the letters, and no other option has them.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An assiduous student is the one you will see ____.
a) copying answers from a friend's book
b) leaving homework until the bus ride
c) checking each answer and reworking errors
d) skipping the hard questions in a paper
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c) checking each answer and reworking errors
2. A teacher writes 'assiduous' on a report. She is praising ____.
a) neat handwriting in one notebook
b) a loud voice in the school choir
c) a single lucky result in maths
d) effort kept up over the whole term
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d) effort kept up over the whole term
