readily

CEFRC1

/ˈɹɛdɪli/

adverb

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All ingredients are readily available from your local store.
Although Hiroko dislikes cigarette smoke, she readily goes out drinking with friends.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430
Light does not pass through water nearly as readily as it passes through air, and in order to function efficiently, an animal that lives in the water must rely on other senses in addition to light.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 28
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

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From Middle English redily, rediliche. By surface analysis, read(i) + -ly.