Eric Campau's Vocab

Soporific (adjective)

Description:
Causes or tends to cause sleep.

Sentence:
It is said that turkey is soporific.

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Related Words:
Hypnotic (synonym),
Soothing (synonym),
Relaxing (synonym)

Prevaricate (verb)

Description:
To speak misleadingly; lie

Sentence:
Many desperate politicians begin to prevaricate while campaigning.

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Related Words:
Stall (synonym),
Dither (synonym),
Evade (synonym)

Reprehensible (adjective)

Description:
To be deserving of blame.

Sentence:
The child was reprehensible after breaking the vase.

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Related Words:
Guilty (synonym),
Liable (synonym),
Blameworthy (synonym)

Penitent (adjective)

Description:
Feeling or expressing regret

Sentence:
He was penitent after diving head first in the shallow end of the pool.

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Related Words:
Remorseful (synonym),
Regretful (synonym),
Apologetic (synonym)

Rapacious (adjective)

Description:
Being one satisfied with greed

Sentence:
Ebenezer Scrooge is rapacious until the ghosts of Christmas visit him.

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Related Words:
Greedy (synonyms),
Voracious (synonym),
Ravenous (synonym)