narcotic
a drug that dulls the senses, relieves pain, and can cause addiction
Word origin: From Greek narkoun, to make numb.
Narcotic in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing narcotic in a sentence.
The doctor prescribed a mild narcotic to manage the patient's severe pain.
The clinical study tracked how prolonged use of the narcotic altered patients' tolerance to pain over six months.
Quick GRE check
3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?
Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “narcotic” well
A narcotic is a drug that dulls the senses and relieves pain, often addictive, and the word can describe anything dulling or sleep-inducing. In legal contexts it broadly labels controlled or illicit drugs.
More GRE words starting with N
the lowest or most unsuccessful point of something
lacking experience, sophistication, or critical judgment
excessive self-admiration and preoccupation with oneself
a condition of stupor, drowsiness, or unconsciousness brought on by drugs or other agents
to dull the senses or lull into a stupor as though by a drug
just beginning to develop or come into existence
a feeling of sickness with an inclination to vomit
vague, unclear, or lacking definite form
Questions about “narcotic”
See these words the way the GRE tests them.
Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.