GRE Word List
ECOSYSTEM
the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
The meaning of the word ecosystem is the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| doze | to sleep lightly |