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 |
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| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |