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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grotesquea style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
brusquemarkedly short and abrupt
titanichaving great magnitude, force, or power : colossal
immureto enclose within or as if within walls
causalexpressing or indicating cause : causative
figmentsomething made up or contrived
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straggleto wander from the direct course or way : rove
taciturntemperamentally disinclined to talk
reduceto draw together or cause to converge : consolidate