GRE Word List

FAUNA

animal life

The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.

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anthema song or hymn of praise or gladness
impertinentgiven to or characterized by insolent rudeness
laceto draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
stippleto engrave by means of dots and flicks
bacchanaliana Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry
curban edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter
deprecateto express disapproval of
cursoryrapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty
oracularresembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery)