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Adjective: amenable  u'mee-nu-bul
  1. Disposed or willing to conform
    "someone amenable to the instruction of others";
    - conformable
     
  2. Responsive to suggestions and influences
    "an amenable child";
    - tractable
     
  3. Open to being acted upon in a certain way
    "an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"; "the tumour was not amenable to surgical treatment"
     
  4. Liable to answer to a higher authority
    "the president is amenable to the constitutional court"

See also: compliant, responsible, susceptible

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