Indicating obligation and willingness
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Using adjectives to indicate willingness | page 5 of 5 |
Indicating low willingness
With strong willingness, the speaker or person referred to is willing to follow the course of action, but may have some reason for not particularly wanting to. This can be glossed as acceptance.
Here is a list of adjectives which are typically used to indicate acceptance:
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Will it be that the staff who dare to speak out will go, while those who are willing to keep quiet for the sake of their jobs or promotion will stay?
The department concerned said that they were released ahead of time because
they had been amenable to discipline and behaved themselves during correctional
period. (SCMP 14/5/95) 
In general, Deng Xiaoping is somewhat less amenable to cooking the
books.
Pressure groups argue that women, already reluctant to report rape,
will be further deterred when their attacker is a policeman, for fear that the charge will
not be investigated impartially. (Microconcord Corpus A)
Mr Mandela said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society, "an ideal for which I am prepared to die". (Microconcord Corpus A)
Introduction
Indicating low willingness
