GRE Word List
PYROMANIAC
a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania
The meaning of the word pyromaniac is a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| exhume | disinter |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| forego | to go before : precede |