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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