Webster's Word of the Day for April 3rd.
Today's word is adroit, spelled A-D-R-O-I-T.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Chicago Tribune.
Adroit is an adjective.
She offers here the most invigorating of performances,
It describes someone or something that has or shows skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations.
technically adroit, but also informed by equal measures of artistry and youth.
And there 's a humility to her singing, along with a sense of her character's smallness in the face
of life's travails and machinations.
The meaning and history of the word adroit is straightforward, so we'll get right to the point.
English speakers borrowed the word with its meaning from French in the mid-1600s,
but the word's ultimate source is the Latin adjective directus, meaning straight or direct.
Adroit entered English as a means for describing physically skillful sorts,
but it came to be applied to those known for their expertise, cleverness, and resourcefulness, too.
Today, Adroit most often describes things people do especially well.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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