GRE Word List

FAUNA

animal life

The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.

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glamoran exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
scorchto burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture
unctuoushaving, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
obsoleteno longer in use or no longer useful
immunenot susceptible or responsive
mammalany 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
gnomemaxim
scrapsfragments of discarded or leftover food
treasurewealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded
metropolisthe chief or capital city of a country, state, or region