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 |
|---|---|
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |