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 |
|---|---|
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| billowing | wave |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |