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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |