ASSIMILATIVE Synonyms

• helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation

• obliging; willing to do favors

• capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use

• of parents and children; related by adoption

• acquired as your own by free choice

• adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)

• (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous

• capable of being changed

• able to flex; able to bend easily

• making or willing to make concessions

• able to adjust readily to different conditions

• bending and snapping back readily without breaking

• growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories

• ready or willing to receive favorably

• open to arguments, ideas, or change

• of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

• able to absorb liquid (not repellent)

• containing or using responses; alternating

• readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion

• reacting to a stimulus

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

• capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution

• capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution