Definition of "amenable" []

• Responsive to advice, authority, or suggestion; willing. (adjective)
• Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law. See Synonyms at responsible. (adjective)
• Susceptible or open, as to testing or criticism: "The phenomenon of mind . . . is much more complex, though also more amenable to scientific investigation, than anyone suspected” ( Michael D. Lemonick). (adjective)

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• "Even in straight achievement terms amenable to current games, imagine for example a paladin who gained bonuses for things like making a personal sacrifice for weaker members of a party your paladin receives buffs when rezzing if by your death the mob was killed while other party members who had sustained over 50% damage did not die."
• "And the White House has always believed that that would eventually occur, and occur more or less on terms amenable to both sides."
• "Magistrates hold their offices as trustees for the people, and they are amenable, that is, answerable, to the people."