GRE Word List
SUPINE
lying on the back or with the face upward
The meaning of the word supine is lying on the back or with the face upward.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| subsistence | real being : existence |