GRE Word List

CATECHISM

oral instruction

The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.

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sultryvery hot and humid : sweltering
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flaila 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
denotationan act or process of denoting
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misadventuremisfortune
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