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 |
|---|---|
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| calorific | caloric |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |