GRE Word List
FAUNA
animal life
The meaning of the word fauna is animal life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| gnome | maxim |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |