Posted on 11/12/2009 2:39:45 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
soporific \sop-uh-RIF-ik; soh-puh-\, adjective
1. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness or lethargy.
noun:
1. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Example sentences:
Hamilton's voice droned on, hypnotic, soporific, the gloom beyond the windows like the backdrop of a waking dream.
-- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock
They were almost an hour behind in their daily schedule, and both women looked tired after a soporific afternoon of three executive meetings.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, News of a Kidnapping
Happily, these three lullaby books offer the sort of comforting bedtime soporific that has delivered generations of children, young and older, into deep, safe slumber.
-- Lisa Shea, New York Times, January 30, 1994
Etymology:
Soporific is from French soporifique, from Latin sopor, "a heavy sleep" + -ficus, "-fic," from facere, "to make."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
(Shakes soporific haze from brain) Dang you’re up early!
So are you! Here's your A.
A+ for you and welcome to WFTD!
When my liberal young friends ask me what I think of the Obamacare debate, I shall tell them, “soporific.” Now that “sopors” are no longer a street drug, they will probably think it is an augmentative of terrific.
An A for you!
They're expecting heavy winds and up to 8" rain in the next 24 hours.
My morning anti-soporific is brewing.
The solemn, studied cadences of the Ditherer-in-Chief may be intended to be mesmerizing, or at least soporific, to keep the sleeping giant unaware, but I find them irritating in the same way that the slow readers in grade school were a nuisance:
"... and then the man with the red hat ... sur - prised me when he dis - played a fol - ded ... pam - ... pam - ... pamph - let and ..."
Interesting read. I think a lot of people are thinking: That while the Bush presidency was not all that, at least he was a warm blooded human being with feelings and all that. As for the Bamster, there’s no evidence that he is.
The left thinks Obama’s terrific
While the right rightly thinks: “soporific”
While that’s true for his speech
It’s his socialist reach
That makes the man truly horrific
the amazing thing is that it was a gay website....and they liked Cheney, they really, really liked him.
Yikes, is that Ida knocking on your door? Stay safe and have an A.
Enjoy! A for you.
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