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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reading to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, declaiming, delivery, discourse, discoursing, discussion, exercise, holding forth, lecture, monologue, narrating, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, playing, proclamation, recital, recounting, rehearsal, rendering, report, selection, soliloquizing, speaking, talk, telling |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group in school |
| Synonyms: | academy, colloquium, course, course of study, division, form, grade, homeroom, lecture group, line, quiz group, recitation, room, round table, section, seminar, seminary, session, study, study group, subdivision, subject |
| Main Entry: | confession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance of information |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assenting, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosing, disclosure, divulgence, enumeration, exposure, exposé, making public, narration, owning up, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revealing, revelation, song*, squawk, squeal, statement, story, telling, unbosoming, utterance |
| Notes: | admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, denial, disavowal, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, recital, recitation, record, recountal, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summarization, summary, tale, version, vignette, writeup, yarn |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | exercise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, effort |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, calisthenics, constitutional, daily dozen, discharge, discipline, drill, drilling, examination, exercising, exertion, gym, labor, lesson, movement, occupation, operation, performance, problem, pursuit, recitation, schoolwork, study, task, test, theme, toil, training, warm-up, workout |
| Main Entry: | lesson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information taught |
| Synonyms: | assignment, chalk talk, class, coaching, drill, education, exercise, homework, instruction, lecture, period, practice, quiz, reading, recitation, schooling, study, task, teaching, test, tutoring |
| Notes: | lessen means to decrease in size, extent, or range, while a lesson is a unit of instruction |
| Main Entry: | litany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recital of items, often part of religious services |
| Synonyms: | account, catalogue, enumeration, invocation, list, petition, prayer, recitation, refrain, repetition, supplication, tale |
| Notes: | a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exercise, application |
| Synonyms: | action, assignment, background, discipline, drill, drilling, effect, experience, homework, iteration, operation, preparation, prepping, recitation, recounting, rehearsal, relating, repetition, seasoning, study, training, tune-up, use, work-out |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | quotation/quote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition of something spoken or written by someone |
| Synonyms: | citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection |
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