Leslie's Vocab

Soporific

Description: Sleepy, drowsy

P.O.S: Adjective

Related words: Balmy (s), Calming (s), dull (s)

Sentence: After a major surgury most people feel very soporific.

Prevaricate

Description: False, misleading, incorrect

P.O.S: Verb

Related words: Fib (s), Falsify (s), Distort (s)

Sentence: She started to prevaricate when she got caught shoplifiting.

Reprehensible

Description: deserving to take the blame

P.O.S: Adjective

Related words: Bad (s), Unholy (s), Remiss (s)

Sentence: She was the reprehensible one, not me!

Penitent

Description: Expressing sorrow, repentant, sin

P.O.S: Adjective

Related words: Regretful (s), Sorry (s), Abject (s)

Sentence: I could tell by the look on the mans face that he felt penitent after he crashed into my car.

Rapacious

Description: Greed

P.O.S: Adjective

Related words: Furious (s), Savage (s), Greedy (s)

Sentence: My sister is so rapacious she ate five breadsticks before offering anyone else one.