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 |
|---|---|
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| catalyst | a 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 |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |