GRE Word List
SOPORIFIC
causing or tending to cause sleep
The meaning of the word soporific is causing or tending to cause sleep.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colloquy | conversation |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| blatant | noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner : clamorous |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |