amenable
willing to cooperate or be persuaded
Word origin: From French amener, to lead to (a- to plus mener to lead).
Amenable in a sentence
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The client was amenable to a compromise once the costs were explained.
The committee proved amenable to revising the proposal once the budget concerns were addressed.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
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Amenable describes a willingness to cooperate or be persuaded, typically followed by to. It can also mean answerable to authority, but the cooperative sense dominates on the GRE.
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