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 |
|---|---|
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| clasp | a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| benison | blessing |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |