ə me nə bəl adjective 1. willing to respond, agree, or submit; agreeable; pliable. I’m amenable to your suggestion. 2. accountable to authority. Citizens must be amenable to the laws of their…
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mirth
muhrth noun happiness or gaiety, especially accompanied by laughter. example: Their holiday dinners were always filled with mirth.
bacchant
bae kənt noun 1. a priest, priestess, or worshiper of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and merrymaking. 2. a drunken, boisterous reveler. adjective 1. worshiping Bacchus. 2. inclined to carouse. …
shiftless
shIft lihs adjective having little or no purpose or ambition; lazy. “Countries such as this are not suited to the dross of humanity. We cannot find employment for the weak, the lazy,…
foretaste
noun for teIst a partial, advance experience or realization of something that will come or happen in the future. The skirmish gave the raw soldiers a foretaste of serious fighting. transitive verb…