Dan O's Vocab Week of 11/26

Soporific - causes sleep

POS - adjective

Related Words - tranquilizing, mesmerizing, hypnotic (synonyms)

Sentence - The instructor's hour long lectures are very soporific.

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Prevaricate - to lie

POS - verb

Related Words - belie, con, fabricate (synonyms)

Sentence - The president prevaricated to the people in his speech.

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Reprehensible - deserving of rebuke

POS - adjective

Related Words - blamable, blameworthy, guilty (synonyms)

Sentence - The drunk driver was the reprehensible person in the car accident.

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Penitent - feeling or expressing sorrow or guilt

POS - adjective

Related Words - remorseful, sorrowful, guilty (synonyms)

Sentence - The penitent man felt guilty after he hit his car into the boy riding his bike.

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Rapacious - greedy

POS - adjective

Related Words - extortionate, avaricious, ravening (synonyms)

Sentence - The rapacious man refused to give any money to his church.

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