Definition: readily reacting to suggestions and influences
Usage: a responsive student
Similar words: susceptible
Definition: (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of
Usage: susceptible to colds; susceptible of proof
Synonyms: manipulable, tractable
Definition: easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)
Usage: tractable young minds; the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition- Samuel Butler
Similar words: malleable, ductile
Definition: easily influenced
Similar words: docile, teachable
Definition: ready and willing to be taught
Usage: docile pupils eager for instruction; teachable youngsters
Similar words: tamable, tameable
Definition: capable of being tamed