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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
operose
 
SYLLABICATION:op·er·ose
PRONUNCIATION:  p-rs
ADJECTIVE:1. Involving great labor; laborious. 2. Industrious; diligent.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin opersus, from opus, oper-, work. See op- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:oper·osely —ADVERB
oper·oseness —NOUN
 
 
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