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

WordMeaning
repelto drive back : repulse
nonchalancethe quality or state of being nonchalant
vilemorally despicable or abhorrent
spoonerisma transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)
serebeing dried and withered
personifyto conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers
cantoone of the major divisions of a long poem
catalysta substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible
flipto toss so as to cause to turn over in the air
vivisectionthe cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation