acquiesce

Used with why or when

• when: Bolívar nevertheless acquiesced when the governments of Colombia, Mexico, and Central America invited the United States to send observers.

Modifying Another Word

• meekly: In whatever case, we should beware of meekly acquiescing to our suffering.
• not: Victims would not acquiesce in any sham process aimed at facilitating an amnesty for the terrorists who have escaped justice.
• readily: When asked to centralize the love story in the script, Bukowski readily acquiesced and then hated the results.
• simply: Carter's opponents were not prepared to acquiesce simply because he was a sick man.
• subsequently: It was decided that the father had consented, and subsequently acquiesced, to the child remaining in England.
• finally: By 1868 all but three states were readmitted under these conditions, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia finally acquiescing in 1870.

Preposition: in

• decision: Binding dispute settlement means that no member should acquiesce in any decision on which it is not fully informed.
• removal: The mother alleged that the father had acquiesced in the removal of the children.
• state: Are the Government happy to acquiesce in that sorry state of affairs?
• precedent: Why shouldn't the Nigerians be expected to acquiesce in the precedent they will soon set?
• transfer: The referendum became a means of reasserting control over political classes that had acquiesced in excessive transfers of authority.
• arrangement: UCET cannot acquiesce in a funding arrangement which excludes a majority of teacher education institutions from support for research.