GRE Word List
FAUNA
animal life
The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| concordat | compact |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| quizzical | comically quaint |