malleable
MAL-ee-uh-buladjMeaning easily shaped or bent; also, easily influenced
Memory hook MALLET-able: shaped with a MALLET. A few taps of the smith’s mallet and the soft gold bends into a ring: gold is malleable.
Warm wax is malleable, so the children pressed it into star shapes.
In context Young children’s tastes are malleable; a toddler who hates peas this month may ask for seconds next month after seeing an older cousin enjoy them.
Similar pliable, flexible, moldable, adaptable
Opposite rigid, inflexible, brittle
From Medieval Latin malleabilis, from malleare (to hammer), from malleus (hammer).