Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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soporific \sop-uh-RIF-ik; soh-puh-\, adjective:
soporific \sop-uh-RIF-ik; soh-puh-\, adjective:
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1. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
1. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness or lethargy.
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noun:
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1. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
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As the B.O. droned on with his incessant chants of "Yes We Can" and "Change You Can Believe In", the press became soporific and ultimately ceased being actual reporters and instead became the zombie actors in the remake of "Night of the Living Dead"!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Soporific is from French soporifique, from Latin sopor, "a heavy sleep" + -ficus, "-fic," from facere, "to make."
Soporific is from French soporifique, from Latin sopor, "a heavy sleep" + -ficus, "-fic," from facere, "to make."
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