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 |
|---|---|
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |