adept

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/ˈæd.ɛpt/

adjective

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adjective
Very skilled or good at doing something.
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adjective
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One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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He is an adept climber.
Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
adepts in philosophy

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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.
1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC
When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

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