Vocabulary

psychoactive
[ sahy-koh-ak-tiv ]

Adjective

of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental

processes:

Ex. Psychoactive substances use on road accidents has been adopted the 27 November
2003. 
 
 

stimulant
[ stim-yuh-luh nt ]

Noun
any food or beverage that stimulates, especially coffee, tea, or, in its initial
effect, alcoholic liquor.
Ex. To get drunk for the sake of the drink was the mark of a beast; but wine was a
powerful stimulant to the brain, and to fuddle oneself in order to think great thoughts was
worthy of a sage.
 

swill
[ swil ]

Verb 
Informal
drink (something) greedily or in large quantities.
Ex. They whiled away their evening swilling pints of beer.
 
 
sedative
[ sed-uh-tiv ]

 
adjective
promoting calm or inducing sleep.
Ex. The seeds have a sedative effect.
 
 

fragment
[frag-muh nt]

noun
a small part broken or separated off something.
Ex. Fragments are incomplete sentences. 

Fragments of glass are around my house. I think my son broke my favorite glass.

puritanical
[ pyoo r-i-tan-i-kuh l ]

adjective
practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior.
Ex. His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation.