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- "So-por-fic" means "makes you sleepy."
- That's right.

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Now, use it in a sentence.
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What has a soporific effect on you?
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What has a soporific effect on me?
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What makes you sleepy?
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Nothing.
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That's right.
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What about you?
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What has a soporific effect on me?
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Let me think.
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Boring conversation,
I suppose, after dinner.

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Me too. Boring conversation.
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Good, excellent. Carry on.
:35:50
"It is said that the effect
of eating too much lettuce...

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"is soporific."
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The bunnies in the picture are sleeping.
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They're sleeping like you said,
because of sop-or-fic.

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The illustration bore out
the meaning of the word...

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just as he had explained it.
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At the time it seemed like magic.
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So...
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imagine the effect the words
of John Donne first had on me.

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Ratiocination, concatenation.
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Coruscation. Tergiversation.
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Medical terms are less evocative.
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Still...
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I want to know what the doctors mean
when they anatomize me.

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My only defense is
the acquisition of vocabulary.

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- Fever and neutropenia.
- Okay, when did it start?

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I was at home reading.
I felt so bad, I got cold.


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