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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|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |