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   receptive

   /rɪˈsɛptɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. willing to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas: "a receptive audience"
   • ▪ able to receive signals or stimuli: "the goldfish's vision is receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal"
   • ▪ (of a female animal) ready to mate: "only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female"

   Derivatives

   • 1. receptively adverb
   • 2. receptiveness noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • C

     3

   • E

     1

   • P

     3

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

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   • E

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