This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (SOP-oh-riff-ick)
Adjective:
1. sleep inducing
2. inducing mental lethargy
Noun:
a drug that induces sleep
From Vocabulary.com: “In the 1680′s, soporific, which doubles as both adjective and noun, was formed from the French soporifique. That word, in turn, came from the Latin sopor ”deep sleep.”
Example:
“PowerPoint presentations in meetings can be powerfully soporific, so don’t rely on them too heavily if you want to hold people’s attention.”
