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 |
|---|---|
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| growl | rumble |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| portly | dignified |
| pitfall | trap |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |