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  Acquiescent \Ac`qui*es"cent\, a. [L. acquiescens, -centis; p.
     pr.]
     Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit;
     assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
     [1913 Webster]

  acquiescent
       adj : willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without
             protest; "too acquiescent to challenge authority"; "a
             gentle and biddable soul"; "children compliant with the
             parental will" [syn: biddable, compliant]

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "acquiescent":
     abject, accepting, accommodating, accordant, acquiescing,
     adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjustable, adjusting, affirmative,
     agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, approving,
     ardent, assentatious, assenting, complaisant, compliable,
     compliant, complying, conceding, concessive, conformable,
     conforming, consentient, consenting, content, cooperative, devoted,
     disposed, docile, duteous, dutiful, eager, endorsing, enthusiastic,
     fain, faithful, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined,
     flexible, forward, game, humble, in the mind, in the mood,
     inclined, law-abiding, loyal, malleable, meek, minded,
     nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive,
     nothing loath, obedient, other-directed, passive, permissive,
     plastic, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ratifying,
     ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, resigned,
     responsive, sanctioning, servile, submissive, subservient, supine,
     tractable, unassertive, uncomplaining, ungrudging, unloath,
     unrefusing, unreluctant, unresistant, unresisting, well-disposed,
     well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding,
     zealous