adept

Definition

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

Etymology

Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).

Example Sentences

• "Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind."