diligent

Used with adjective complement

remain: It is an issue in respect of which retailers must remain diligent.

Infinitive complement

• make: And Peter here says, " Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you.
• come: In fact, you should be diligent to come to the experience of assurance.

Modifies a noun

• inquiry: May I know by a little diligent inquiry now; and do I refuse the labor?
• search: In spite of diligent search no pottery whatever was found.
• researcher: I am not a very diligent researcher into family history; it is more of an interest at the moment.
• effort: Success is seen to be the just reward for diligent effort in which chance has played no part.
• inquiry: We do not believe they made due diligent inquiry and believe they acted on correspondence produced by Henry Woods on his own lawyers paper.
• reader: This book really rewards the diligent reader with critical understanding, unlike too many popular science books that obfuscate with over-simplification.

Modifying Another Word

• reasonably: The reason you need to consider security is to show you were reasonably diligent in protecting the environment in which your records exist.
• especially: They should only be told that a pedophile is living nearby, so parents can be especially diligent, rather than handing out addresses.
• very: Furthermore, she is not a very diligent laborer; she likes to take her time.
• ever: But the ever diligent Recording Industry Of America said all of the service's arguments had been rejected by Aspen.
• so: Unfortunately, not all his students are so diligent or so capable as their tutor.
• not: There is no point in doing research if it is not diligent and thoughtful, however creative it is.

Preposition: in

• prayer: Jn 14:23 3. Being diligent in prayer - Ph 4:6-7 4. Filling our mind with spiritual thoughts - Ph 4:8-9; cf.
• matter: A written record is proof that a business has been diligent in the matter of temperature control.
• business: Be you as fervent in spirit as Mary was - as diligent in business as Martha was.
• performance: Performance of duties 5. Officers should be conscientious and diligent in the performance of their duties.