Word of the Day: CONSCIENTIOUS

Principled or painstaking

conscientious (adj) - thorough, careful, or scrupulous; governed by conscience

BREAKDOWN: CON- (with) + SCI- (knowledge) + -ENCE (state) + -OUS (inclined to)

• conscience is a moral sense of right and wrong

See also: prescience

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” —Martin Luther King Jr.