GRE Word List
CATECHISM
oral instruction
The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| championship | designation as champion |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |