Both Uses of
acquiesce
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Of each erotic experience his memory recorded only the steep and narrow path of sexual conquest: the first piece of verbal aggression, the first touch, the first obscenity he said to her and she to him, the minor perversions he could make her acquiesce in and the ones she held out against.†
Chpt 5
- Though amazed at so curious an objection, the Americans, still smiling, acquiesced:
Chpt 6 *acquiesced = complied
Definition:
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(acquiesce) reluctant or unenthusiastic compliance, consent, or agreement