Vocabulary learning #2

adept – expert at
They would not be so rich if they were not adept at minimizing tax and maximizing profits.

adroit – skillful
Since then he has shown every sign of being a pragmatist, an adroit politician and a very hard worker.

aghast - horrified
When my boys first started school, we were aghast atthe anti-English propaganda in the history books.

albeit - although
He has a vision, albeit one unclouded by economic and social reality.

alimentary – supplying nourishment
Happily, apart from patients with high-grade obstruction within the alimentary tract, or with coeliac disease, dietary fibre in its natural state in food has not been shown to cause or exacerbate any human disease in the Western population.

amenable - easy to control; willing to be influenced by sb/sth
Corporate culture is not something easily amenable to management control or manipulation.