GRE Word List
FAUNA
animal life
The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.
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matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
beneficent | doing or producing good |
rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
upshot | the final result : outcome |
belie | to give a false impression of |
granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |