GRE Word List
FAUNA
animal life
The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| score | twenty |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |