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 |
|---|---|
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |