GRE Word List
FAUNA
animal life
The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| delve | excavate |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |