[ US /ˌækwiˈɛs/ ]
[ UK /ˌækwɪˈɛs/ ]
VERB
  1. to agree or express agreement
    The Maestro assented to the request for an encore
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How To Use acquiesce In A Sentence

  • It was too much of an effort to play the acquiescent wife: her heart would burst. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • England, and she kept Susan Talbot and her children in what she called their meet place, in which that good lady thoroughly acquiesced, having her hands much too full of household affairs to run after queens. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
  • When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
  • However, to understand is not to acquiesce in or accept these developments.
  • She is too acquiescent , ie too ready to comply.
  • Further, it may be believed that saleswomen will not forever acquiesce in pursuing their trade in utterly machinal activity, without any common expression of their common position. Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls
  • French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Her unexpected acquiescence completely deflated him.
  • Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect.
  • Steve seemed to acquiesce in the decision.
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