GRE Word List
SOPORIFIC
causing or tending to cause sleep
The meaning of the word soporific is causing or tending to cause sleep.
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| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
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| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| wry | twist |
| plait | pleat |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |