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 |
|---|---|
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |