GRE Word List
POROUS
possessing or full of pores
The meaning of the word porous is possessing or full of pores.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |