flexible
/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/ adjective B2- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations. · You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way. · a flexible language
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She had a marvelously flexible voice and wonderful power of expression; the audience went wild over her selection.
Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
Château-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.
Sarah replied, “No, it is a flexible plan, and you can cancel at any time.”
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