GRE Word List

FAUNA

animal life

The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.

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felicitythe quality or state of being happy
entrancepower or permission to enter : admission
umbragea feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
categoricalabsolute
dribbleto issue sporadically and in small bits
posthumousborn after the death of the father
argotthe language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
capillaryresembling a hair especially in slender elongated form
disfigureto impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries
phalanxa body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files