| Main Entry: | recitation |
| 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: | announcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proclamation, declaration |
Synonyms: |
advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, communiqué, disclosure, dissemination, divulgence, edict, exposing, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, promulgation, publication, publishing, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |