GRE Word List
CATECHISM
oral instruction
The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |