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acquiescent |
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acquiescent adjective submissive, agreeing, accepting, approving, yielding, consenting, accommodating, conforming, agreeable, meek, assenting, obedient, compliant, amenable, acceding, concurrent, ingratiating, malleable, deferential, pliant, obsequious, tractable, unresisting, bootlicking (informal), obeisant The other men were acquiescent but he had an independent streak. Translations acquiescent [ˌækwɪˈesnt] ADJ → conforme, aquiescente he was perfectly acquiescent → se mostró completamente conforme he is acquiescent by nature → por su naturaleza se conforma con todo acquiescent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| P-, in charge of the deck, hooked on to the windward mizzen rigging in a state of perfect serenity; myself, the third mate, also hooked on somewhere to windward of the slanting poop, in a state of the utmost preparedness to jump at the very first hint of some sort of order, but otherwise in a perfectly acquiescent state of mind. Thenceforth, he contented himself with quick looks and glances, easily interpreted, or by some acquiescent motions of his hands, when such could be convenient, to emphasise his idea of the correctness of any inference. This undeniable argument produced a sort of acquiescent umph |
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