GRE Word List
CATECHISM
oral instruction
The meaning of the word catechism is oral instruction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |