GRE Word List
MANIACAL
affected with or suggestive of madness
The meaning of the word maniacal is affected with or suggestive of madness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |