GRE Word List
SPIN
to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread
The meaning of the word spin is to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| opus | work |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |