Word to the Wise: Soporific

Something that’s "soporific" (sop-uh-RIF-ik) – from the Latin – induces sleep.

Example (as used by Benjamin Schwarz in The Atlantic): "Since the war – beginning in 1950 with… Richard M. Titmuss’s Problems of Social Policy – … a tour de force whose soporific title belies its often disturbing contents – historians have probed, revised, and re-revised nearly every aspect of this self-defined finest hour of the British people [the Blitz]."

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