"-Able" is a word in ENGLISH
An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to
be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense;
as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable,
fit to be blamed; salable.
Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as,
able to inherit or devise property.
To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means,
or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of
qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified;
capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a
mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain;
able to play on a piano.
Fit; adapted; suitable.
To vouch for.
Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong
mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful;
as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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