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Six example sentences with soporific, each labelled with its topic.
The antihistamine proved so soporific that patients were warned not to drive for eight hours after the first dose.
Medicine
The cellist's slow encore was so soporific that half the balcony was nodding before the final chord faded.
Music
Forty pages of legal genealogy make the second chapter soporific, and most readers wake up somewhere near the trial.
Literature
The senator's soporific speech on tariff schedules emptied the chamber within twenty minutes.
Politics
The rocking of the overnight train was so soporific that she missed her stop by two stations.
Travel
The quarterly meeting was soporific, ninety slides of the same charts read aloud in the same flat voice.
Business
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- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
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- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
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- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- MajorTests SAT 1000
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