GRE Word List
CATECHISM
oral instruction
The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| delve | excavate |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |