Today’s “Word of the Day” is impressionable and it is an adjective meaning “(especially of a young person) easily impressed and influenced by others; susceptible, receptive, persuadable, malleable”.
Example Sentence: Ideas should be fought with ideas; ideas cannot be banned. Second, students at the postgraduate level are mature enough to understand and decide which idea to support and which idea to oppose. So, nothing should be excluded from the curriculum. If a curriculum is being structured for school students, who are of an impressionable age, educationists can decide on the manner of presenting the subject to the students.
This word is present in The Hindu article Should universities avoid teaching controversial texts? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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