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 |
|---|---|
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| engender | beget |