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 |
|---|---|
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| reverie | daydream |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| stilted | pompous |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |