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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

fauna

noun

Definition

the animals of a region or period

In a sentence

The fauna of Australia includes kangaroos and koalas.

Similar words

  • wildlife

Why this word matters: fauna appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.