GRE Word List

CATECHISM

oral instruction

The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.

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phariseea 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