{"id":50136,"date":"2025-09-17T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50136"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:24:33","slug":"vocabulary-sorb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-sorb\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: sorb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about vocabulary: the tutor mentions a word he discovered.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn my reading about soil nutrients I came across the word <em>sorb<\/em>. At first I wondered if it was intentional, but it seems so.<\/p>\n<p>\nSorb, apparently, includes absorb and adsorb: what is sorbed is accumulated by either absorption or adsorption. Absorption is probably more familiar, while adsorption, as I understand, is when particles are attracted, so stick to, a surface, but don&#8217;t enter it.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabulary.com\/dictionary\/sorb\">vocabulary.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about vocabulary: the tutor mentions a word he discovered. In my reading about soil nutrients I came across the word sorb. At first I wondered if it was intentional, but it seems so. Sorb, apparently, includes absorb and adsorb: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-sorb\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: sorb<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50139,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50136\/revisions\/50139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}