| Main Entry: | rehearsal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preparation for performance |
Synonyms: |
call, description, drill, dry run, experiment, going-over, practice, practice session, prep, reading, readying, recital, recitation, recounting, rehearsing, relation, retelling, run-through, shakedown, test flight, trial balloon, trial performance, tryout, workout |
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cold turkey |
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
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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 |
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misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | experiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | investigation, test |
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R and D, agreement, analysis, assay, attempt, check, dissection, dry run, enterprise, essay, examination, exercise, experimentation, fling*, measure, observation, operation, practice, probe, procedure, proof, quiz, rehearsal, research, research and development, scrutiny, search, speculation, study, trial, trial and error, trial run, try, try-on, tryout, undertaking, venture, verification |
| Main Entry: | narration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description, reading |
Synonyms: |
account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, report, story, storytelling, tale, telling, voice-over, yarn |
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concealment, suppression |
| Main Entry: | performance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acting, depiction |
Synonyms: |
act, appearance, ballet, behavior, burlesque, business, ceremony, concert, custom, dance, display, drama, exhibition, gig, interpretation, matinee, offering, opera, pageant, play, portrayal, presentation, production, recital, rehearsal, representation, review, revue, rigmarole, rite, set, show, special, spectacle, stage show, stunt, to-do |
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direction |
| 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: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, readiness |
Synonyms: |
alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, build-up, construction, dry run, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, getting ready, groundwork, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, putting in order, qualification, readying, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, schoolwork, study, substructure, training, tryout, workout |
Antonyms: |
unreadiness |
| Main Entry: | recital |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrative, rendering |
Synonyms: |
account, concert, description, detailing, enumeration, fable, musical, musicale, narration, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehearsal, relation, repetition, report, statement, story, tale, telling |
| Notes: | a recital is a musical performance by a soloist or two performers; a concert is a performance by a group |
| 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: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
Synonyms: |
alliteration, broken record, chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, practice, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, restatement, return, rhythm, rote, staccato, tautology |
Antonyms: |
instance |