- Careful effort - Penalties - Pests from Spain - Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
- Assiduous - Conscientious in one's work - Hard-working - Hard-working bloke from East Timor? - Industrious - Painstaking - Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful;
painstaking; not careless or negligent.