SAT Word of the Day: soporific
September 4, 2010 by Adam
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soporific (adj., n.)
From Dictionary.com:
-adjective
1. causing or tending to cause sleep.
2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
–noun
3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
In a sentence:
“The teacher’s soporific lecture was so boring that I nearly fell asleep.”
