acquiesce

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The Word of the Day for April 22 is:

acquiesce   \ak-wee-ESS\   verb
     : to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively

Example sentence:
     Clark inevitably acquiesces when his mother-in-law insists 
that he have a second helping of one of her home-cooked meals.

Did you know? 
     "Acquiesce" means essentially "to comply quietly," so it 
should not surprise you to learn that it is ultimately derived 
from the Latin verb "quiescere," meaning "to be quiet." It 
arrived in English around 1620, via the French "acquiescer," 
with the now obsolete sense "to rest satisfied." The earliest 
known recorded use of the word "acquiesce" in the sense 
of "agree, comply" appeared in the writings of the English 
philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1651. In his masterpiece Leviathan, 
Hobbes argued that people must subject themselves completely to 
a sovereign and should obey the teachings of the church. 
Encouraging his readers to adopt his position he wrote, "Our 
Beleefe ... is in the Church; whose word we take, and acquiesce 
therein."