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To agree, comply, submit.

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Usage examples (36)
  • I don't want to see that movie, but I guess I'll have to acquiesce this time.
  • But if we again acquiesce we will be reduced to sad and pathetic footnotes in our accelerating transformation from a democracy to a totalitarian corporate state.
  • Off the top of my head, "acquiesce" is pretty cool.
  • She not only used "acquiesce" in a song way before Noel Gallagher made such a fanfare of doing so, but deployed it perfectly:
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