Brittany D's Vocab (11/30)

Soporific
Description: A medicine or drug that causes you to want to sleep.
POS: Adj
Synonyms: anesthetic, calming, mesmerizing
Sentence: When my aunt had surgery, she was given soporific drugs to make her sleep.
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Prevaricate
Description: Deliberately saying something that is not true, or telling a lie.
POS: Verb
Synonyms: belie, distort, fib
Sentence: My little sister prevaricates the truth all the time.
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Reprehensible
Description: being blamed for something
POS: Adj
Synonyms: blamable, guilty, disgraceful
Sentence: The criminal was reprehensible for the crime he committed.
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Penitent
Description: repenting for sin, feeling sorrow for what you have done wrongly
POS: Adj
Synonyms: repenting, asking forgiveness, sorrowful
Sentence: The little girl was felt penitent after hitting her brother.
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rapacious
Description: giving in to satisfying your greed; seizing plunder
POS: Adj
Synonyms: greedy, ravening, demanding
Sentence: The rich man was still rapacious about money.
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