GRE Word List
CATECHISM
oral instruction
The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ebullient | boiling |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| pitfall | trap |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |