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| Main Entry: |
recite
 [ri-sahyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | read out loud; narrate |
| Synonyms: | account for, address, answer, chant, communicate, convey, declaim, delineate, deliver, describe, detail, discourse, dramatize, enact, enlarge, enumerate, expatiate, explain, give a report, give an account, give verbal account, hold forth, impart, interpret, itemize, mention, parrot, perform, picture, portray, quote, recapitulate, recount, reel off, rehearse, relate, render, repeat, reply, report, retell, soliloquize, speak, state, tell, utter |
| Main Entry: | allege |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assert; claim |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, affirm, asservate, aver, avouch, avow, charge, cite, declare, depose, lay, maintain, offer, plead, present, profess, put forward, recite, recount, state, testify |
| Antonyms: | contradict, deny, disagree, dissent, object, protest, repudiate |
| Main Entry: | chant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sing simple song or song part |
| Synonyms: | cantillate, carol, chorus, croon, descant, doxologize, drone, intone, recite, shout, tune, vocalize, warble |
Example Sentences
- Merely having read the material and being able to recite it verbatim is neither education nor learning.
- They can either recite it in my office, or in public.
- The researchers tested his accuracy by prompting him with two lines from the poem and asking him to recite the next ten.
| Main Entry: | cite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | note, quote |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, allege, allude to, appeal to, enumerate, evidence, excerpt, exemplify, extract, get down to brass tacks, give as example, illustrate with, indicate, instance, lay, mention, name, number, offer, point out, present, recite, recount, refer to, reference, rehearse, remember, reminisce, repeat, specify, spell out, tell |
| Main Entry: | declaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | proclaim; get on a soapbox |
| Synonyms: | attack, bloviate, blow hot air, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, hold forth, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, pile it on, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, soapbox, speak, spiel*, spout, talk big |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, convey image, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, name, narrate, outline, paint, particularize, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | specify, make clear |
| Synonyms: | analyze, catalog, circumstantiate, communicate, delineate, depict, describe, designate, elaborate, embellish, enumerate, epitomize, exhibit, fly speck, get down to brass tacks, individualize, itemize, lay out, narrate, particularize, portray, produce, quote chapter and verse, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, set forth, show, specialize, spell out, spread, stipulate, summarize, sweat details, tell, uncover |
| Antonyms: | hide, misrepresent, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | enumerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | list, count |
| Synonyms: | add up, calculate, cite, compute, count noses, detail, figure, identify, inventory, itemize, keep tabs, mention, name, number, particularize, quote, recapitulate, recite, reckon, recount, rehearse, relate, run down, run off, specialize, specify, spell out, sum, take account of, tally, tell, tick off, total |
| Antonyms: | not count |
| Main Entry: | itemize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep detailed record |
| Synonyms: | catalog, circumstantiate, cite, count, detail, document, enumerate, individualize, instance, inventory, lay out, list, mention, number, particularize, quote, recite, record, recount, rehearse, relate, set out, specify, spell out, tally |
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