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recitation
noun as in reading to audience
Strong matches
Weak matches
- declaiming
- discoursing
- holding forth
- narrating
- soliloquizing
Example Sentences
DeSantis’s opposition to the teaching of AP African American history speaks to a state power apparatus that is afraid of a factual recitation of Florida’s real history.
There was the fight to restore the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance on his bleeding heart campus.
At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.
On the outside, it seems like it’s a quiet, calm ballad as it opens; Ellis on guitar, a recitation of the story of "a girl who’s got no history / got no past."
Just as Lorca embodies Lorca, Wainwright threads recitations of Lord Byron’s 1816 “Darkness,” throughout a score otherwise based on the traditional Latin requiem text.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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