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Por ello os invito a leer este pequeño artículo en inglés. Quizás sea una
buena ocasión para comprobar las capacidades dormidas de algunos o las
necesidades de mejorar en el uso de este idioma de otros.
En cualquier caso, espero sea del interés de ambas partes.
"The word of the week"
AMENABLE
Adjective:
1. easily
influenced or controlled
2. (Amenable
to) capable of being treated in a particular way.
Derivatives:
Amenability noun
Amenably adverb
Definition of AMENABLE
Liable: to be brought to account
Answerable: citizens amenable to the law. Capable of
submission (as to judgment or test)
Suited: The data is amenable to analysis.
Readily brought to yield,
submit or cooperate: a government not amenable to change.
Willing: was amenable to spending more time at home.
Examples of AMENABLE
1. Whatever you decided to do, I´m amenable_____ Just
let me know.
2. Our normally balky cat becomes the most amenable of
creatures when confronted with strange environment of the veterinary clinic.
3. While no one yet knows how wide … margins can go,
contracts establish royalty rates and project them far into the future. Many
agents have thus pushed for a term of license of just a few years. Publishers,
however, are not always amenable.
4. Some of the newer findings address a vexing flaw in the
sole noninvasive screening test for detecting microscopic prostate cancer, the
form most amenable to a cure.
5. … depression, schizophrenia and manic
depression, mental troubles that are now considered amenable to
treatment by drug therapy …
6. I was amenable to
conversation.
7. My friend got two amenable children.
Related to AMENABLE
Synonyms: Willing, Disposes, Fain,
Game, Glad, Inclined, Minded and Ready.
Antonyms: Disinclined, Stubborn,
Intractable, Inflexible, Recalcitrant, Unyielding, Obstinate, Unbending,
Obdurate, Stiff-necked, Pig-headen, Mulish and Unwilling.
Related Words: Predisposed,
Prone, Accommodating, Agreeable, Compliant, Cooperative, Obedient, Obliging,
Submissive, Favorable, Receptive, Prepared, Prompt, Quick, Responsive, Swift,
Desirous, Eager, Enthused, Enthusiastic, Excited.
Near Antonyms: Averse, Loath
(also Loth or Loathe), Reluctant, Reticent.
See Synonym Discussion at: Responsible, Obedient.
"The quiz of the week"
What is the best synonym for the word amenable?
A. shameful
B. disagreeable
C. responsive
D. powerful
Puedes responder en el apartado
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