ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsAacquiesce
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acquiesce
Meaning: to accept something reluctantly without protest
acquiesce in a sentence
How acquiesce is used in real sentences:
Although she disliked the compromise, she chose to acquiesce.
The exhausted delegates acquiesced when the chairman proposed a final compromise.
“Instead, she acquiesced to printing the whole text, while treating accuracy as a bulwark against the pressure to soften its cruelty.”
— from the passage The Unsmoothed Voice
Synonyms for acquiesce
Other words for acquiesce — submit, comply and yield — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of acquiesce
Words that mean the opposite of acquiesce:
- resist
- oppose
- protest
Where it comes from
From Latin acquiescere, meaning 'to become quiet or rest.'
Memory hook
ACQUIESCE sounds like 'agree, yes': acquiesce by quietly saying yes.