Etymology and Literary Examples of Acquiesce

It's the Word of the Day podcast for june eighteenth This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance Do you ever think about switching insurance companies to see if you could save some cash? Progressive makes it easy to see if you could save when you bundle your home and auto policies. Try it at progressive d. com Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates, potential savings will vary not available in all states Today's word is acquiesce spepelled A C Q U I E S C E. acquies is a verb to acquce to something is to accept it, agree with it, or allow it to happen by staying silent or by not arguing acquies is somewhat formal. and is often used with the words in or to Here's the word used in a sentence from slate It may be just the right time for a chicken burger to become a significant stop on the American Burgers's continual evolution whether beef clinging purists will acquiesce to a poultry spin or cry foul remains to be seen If you're looking to give your speech a gentle, formal flare give the word acquiesce the silent treatment Essentially meaning to comply quietly, acquiesce has as its ultimate source, the Latin verb quiesquare, meaning to be quiet Qiet itself is also a close relation F care can also mean to repose, to fall asleep or to rest And when acquiesce arrived in English via French in the early sixteen hundreds, it did so with two senses the familiar to agree or comply and the now obsolete to rest satisfied Herman Melville employed the former in Moby Dick when Ahab orders the confounded crew to change the PeQad's course after a storm damages the compasses with these words Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbucks said nothing