Amenable

amenable







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[uh-mee-nuh-buhl, uh-men-uh-]



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–adjective 

1. ready or willing 

to 

answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.  



2. liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible: You are amenable [for] this debt. 

3. capable of or agreeable to being tested, tried, analyzed, etc. 



Synonyms:

1. manageable, docile, easy. 3. open, subject.



Antonyms:

1. stubborn, recalcitrant.





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amenable (adj.) 

   

means "responsive, receptive" and combines regularly with to: He is eventempered and amenable [to] correction. Pronounce it either uh-MEN-uh-bul or uh-MEEN-uh-bul.    

 



　

The burden of this film—the rape of a maiden land—could hardly be simpler, and your reaction will depend on your susceptibility to the Malick manner. 



All the hallmarks of this formidable tone poet are on show: the murmurs of internal monologue that take the place of conversation, the reverence for green thoughts, the hopeless lurches [into] action, the bizarre physical sensibility that registers every flicker of sunlight but shies away, as if for fear of bruising, from any breath of sex. 



Whole passages of non-event stream by, and you half want to scream, and yet—damn it all—by the end of "The New World" the spell of the images, plus the enigma of Kilcher’s expression 



(she is as [sculpted] as an idol, and every bit as amenable [to] worship), 



somehow breaks you down. Pocahontas travels to England with a few kinsmen, and the sight of the Americans, resplendent in skins and feathers, shivering proudly amid topiary and gravelled walks is at once witty and sublime. The lesson is as clear as rainwater: to the innocent eye, ripe for marvelling, every world is new.



topiary

–adjective 

1. (of a plant) 

clipped 

or trimmed into fantastic shapes. 



2. of or pertaining to such trimming. 

–noun 

3. topiary work; the topiary art.

4. a garden containing such work. 



gravel

–noun 

1. small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand. 





indemnification

restitution

The bank officers absolved him from having to make further [restitution]. 



retribution 

without personal motives

a [just] retribution for [wickedness]. 

When the deed is done, Von Sydow, a deeply religious man, begins to question the [efficacy] of a [God] 

that would allow his daughter's death, then permit so bloody a [retribution].

reprisal

retaliation in warfare on enemy for its unlawful actions

to make a raid in reprisal for one by the [enemy].

vengeance

wrathful, vindictive revenge

[implacable] vengeance. 

Gratuitous