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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.
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| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
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