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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| postulate | demand |
| contrive | devise |
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| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
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| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |