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The Word of the Day for May 16 is:

docile \DAH-sul or DAH-syle\ (adjective)
1 : easily taught
*2 : easily led or managed : tractable

Example sentence: Peabody was such a good-natured, docile horse that even the youngest children could ride him.

Did you know?

"Docile" students can make teaching a lot easier. Nowadays, calling students "docile" indicates they aren't trouble-makers. But there's more than just good behavior connecting docility to teachability. The original meaning of "docile" is more to the point: "readily absorbing something taught." "The docile mind may soon thy precepts know," rendered Ben Jonson, for example, in a 17th-century translation of the Greek poet Horace. "Docile" comes from Latin "docere," which means "to teach." Other "docere" descendants include "doctrine" (which can mean "something that is taught"), "document" (the earliest meaning of which was "instruction"), and "doctor" and "docent" (both of which can refer to college teachers).

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

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