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 |
|---|---|
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| devious | wandering |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |