ductile (adj) - easily led or influenced; tractable; pliant or able to be molded [duhk-til]
BREAKDOWN: DUCT- (lead) + -ILE (quality)
ductility is the quality of being able to change physical form without breaking
See also: traduce
“Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson