Tag: Noun Skein

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Word of the Day – Skein

  • Noun:  Skein
    1.  a loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel
    2. something suggesting the twists or coils of a skein :  tangle
    3. a flock of wildfowl (as geese or ducks) in flight
  •  Synonyms:
    1. tangle
    2. complication
    3. labyrinth
    4. snarl
  • Usage:
    1. “All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain,she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, what? ”
  • Encountered:
    1. While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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