Bo's Vocab

Soporific

1. to cause to be tired.
2. Adjective
3. Synontms: drowzy, tired, sleepy
4. You can take pills before bed to make you soporific.

Prevaricate

1. To lie or to be misleading
2. Verb
3. Synonyms: falsify, belie, misrepresent
4. The child prevaricates to his parents when he says he did his chores but really did not.

Reprehensible

1. Needing to be reproofed or censured

2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: blamable, culpable, guilty
4. Critics thought that the T.V. show was reprehensible because it was too vulgar.

Penitent

1. Feeling sorry or bad about something you did wrong
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: remorseful, regretful, atoning
4. He felt penitent so he went into confesion.

Rapacious

1. To be greedy and take for yourself
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: greedy, predatory, ravenous
4. Scrooge was rapacious because he would not give money to the poor.