Answer: confident and forthright
Explanation:
Delete usual. Custom and usual do not flow together and a custom is already a usual thing, just like tradition.
<h3>What you are supposed to do is:</h3>
- Choose any one of the texts (Hint: Choose the shortest one)
- Use the races strategy: Restate, Analyze, Cite and Evidence to explain where you found the author's purpose (the reason behind the text). And prove how you found it.
- The author's purpose could be to inform, persuade or to entertain.
- So you would have to prove the author's purpose from the article, and how it (the evidence) supports the author's purpose
Answer:
It means to be very good at something
" thoroughly proficient : EXPERT" - Merriam Webster