recitation
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Recitation \Rec`i*ta"tion\ (r[e^]s`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
recitatio: cf. F. r['e]citation. See {Recite}.]
1. The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or
sentences. --Hammond.
[1913 Webster]
2. The delivery before an audience of something committed to
memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also,
that which is so delivered.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils
before their instructor.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "recitation":
address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk,
debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, eulogy,
exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic,
forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue,
homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address,
instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration,
lesson, monologue, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization,
object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration,
philippic, pitch, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text,
public speech, reading, recital, sales talk, salutatory,
salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, set speech, set task,
skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon,
task, teaching, tirade, valediction, valedictory,
valedictory address
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