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 |
|---|---|
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |