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   A·me·na·ble

   /əˈmēnəb(ə)l/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled: "parents who have had easy babies and amenable children" Similar compliantacquiescentbiddablemanageablecontrollablegovernablepersuadabletractableresponsivepliantflexiblemalleablecomplaisantaccommodatingdocilesubmissiveobedienttamemeekeasily handledrare:persuasibleOpposite uncooperative
   • ▪ (of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible to: "the patients had cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment" Similar susceptiblereceptiveresponsivereactivevulnerabledefenseless againstrare:susceptiveOpposite resistant

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘liable to answer to a law or tribunal’): an Anglo-Norman French legal term, from Old French amener ‘bring to’ from a- (from Latin ad) ‘to’ + mener ‘bring’ (from late Latin minare ‘drive animals’, from Latin minari ‘threaten’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. amenability noun
   • 2. amenably adverb
   • 3. amenableness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • A

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   • M

     3

   • E

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   • N

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   • A

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   • B

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   • L

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   • E

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