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This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words equanimity assiduous disinter minatory expatiate Today's word in Visual Thesaurus How can I get AWAD? Many ways to read AWAD: Email Web Twitter RSS feed On your own site Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg assiduous PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SIJ-oo-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Constant; persistent; industrious. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin assiduus, from assidere (to attend to, to sit down to), from ad- (toward) + sedere (to sit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit) that is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, and tetrahedron. USAGE: "The reason for his presence there [a Donald Duck statue in a temple garden] remains a mystery despite the author's most assiduous inquiries." Jeff Kingston; Chiang Mai: Thailand's beguiling Rose of the North; The Japan Times (Tokyo); Jun 28, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. -Simone Weil, philosopher, mystic, activist (1909-1943)

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