soporific - (sop-o-rif-ic) adj.
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On a trip to the Amazon to collect plant specimens, you discover the soporific effects of the leaves of a climbing vine. As soon as you can, you place an excited call home to your wife. What do you tell her?
a.) That you've discovered a cure for airsickness.
b.) That you've found a cure for insomnia.
c.) That you've found a safe appetite supressant.
And the answer is:
1. causing or tending to cause sleep.
2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
(hey, the same end result as my lectures!!)
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