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.

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WordMeaning
impeachto charge with a crime or misdemeanor
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
precipitantprecipitate
braggarta loud arrogant boaster
promulgateto make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim
sluggarda habitually lazy person
probityadherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness
deposeto remove from a throne or other high position
impertinentgiven to or characterized by insolent rudeness
paraphernaliathe separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life