Submissive

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(adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination*When animal live in packs, one animal is usually the dominant leader, while the others fall into more submissive roles. To be submissive is to obey or yield to someone else.
*When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs.
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    marked by extreme calm and composure
  2. observe
    watch attentively
  3. subterraneous
    being or operating under the surface of the earth
  4. knightly
    characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
  5. detestable
    offensive to the mind
  6. lessen
    decrease in size, extent, or range
  7. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
  8. wayward
    resistant to guidance or discipline
  9. decisive
    characterized by resoluteness and firmness
  10. ascent
    a movement upward
  11. renowned
    widely known and esteemed
  12. cling
    hold on tightly or tenaciously
  13. coercive
    serving or intended to force
  14. ostentatiously
    in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
  15. hypocritically
    in a hypocritical manner
  16. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  17. fleeting
    lasting for a markedly brief time
  18. bespoken
    pledged to be married
  19. ransack
    search thoroughly
  20. fluid
    continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow
  21. reconcile
    come to terms
  22. irrefutable
    impossible to deny or disprove
  23. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  24. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  25. loot
    goods or money obtained illegally
Created on Sat Sep 10 19:20:22 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Sep 15 01:22:10 EDT 2011)

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