Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word that best expresses the meaning of the given phrase.

Causing or tending to cause sleep

  1. Genetic

  2. Hectic

  3. Soporific

  4. Frenetic
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C Correct answer
Explanation

'Soporific' means causing or tending to cause sleep or drowsiness (from Latin 'sopor' = deep sleep). Genetic relates to genes/heredity, Hectic means frantic/bustling, and Frenetic means frenzied/wildly excited - opposites of sleep-inducing.

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