Word of the Day

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3

Adroit

[ə-DROYT]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: french, 17th century

• Showing skillfulness or cleverness in handling a situation
• Dexterous or nimble with the use of hands

Using Adroit in a sentence

• It was an adroit move on Napoleon's part to gag the secretary.
• Illya took the vial and hid it in the woman's hat, a swift and adroit decision from the agent.

More to it...

Adroit can have a physical or a mental usage to describe being quick and skillful. Having the perfect solution to a problem, or having useful dexterity in motion are both uses for this word. The adverb adroitly describes something done in an adroit manner.

The translation of the French word “adroit” is skillful. There’s also a German cousin, “adrett,” meaning neat and tidy.

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Illya Kuryakin was adroit at many skills, but one thing not taught to him by GRU or the U.N.C.L.E. was the ability to skillfully pick pockets. That was one taught to him by a fellow orphan named Yuri while they lived at the Moscow orphanage after the war.

To the world it was prided by the USSR that orphans of the war were taken care of, with special homes built for children of officers who died defending the motherland.

Illya and Yuri though weren't that, nor were the other countless orphans with them. They were akin to the besprizornye, a term used during the first World War and were considered abandoned.

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Napoleon Solo had many skills that helped him become UNCLE's number one enforcement agent. He was proud of all of his technical abilities but the skill that he was most adroit at was his ability to charm others. This was a natural ability, something that couldn't be taught.