Crossword-Solution: RECITATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recitation | n. | The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. |
| Recitation | n. | The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. |
| Recitation | n. | The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RECITATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Classroom performance | 1 answer |
| reciting | 1 answer |
| written matter that is recited from memory | 1 answer |
| Classroom activity | 2 answers |
| A PUBLIC INSTANCE OF RECITING OR REPEATING SOMETHING PREPARED IN ADVANCE | 11 answers |
| Reading | 13 answers |
| Intonation. | 19 answers |
| repetition | 29 answers |
| monologue | 47 answers |
| Oration | 52 answers |
| Speech | 59 answers |
| discourse | 60 answers |
| phonation | 60 answers |
| Appeal | 73 answers |
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Sentences with RECITATION (5)
This morning, when Thea and her two younger brothers sat down to breakfast, Tillie was remonstrating with Gunner because he had not learned a recitation assigned to him for George Washington Day at school.
However, they worried through, and each got his reward—in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation.
But when any sorrow of our own happens to us, then you may observe that we pride ourselves on the opposite quality--we would fain be quiet and patient; this is the manly part, and the other which delighted us in the recitation is now deemed to be the part of a woman.
See 2d Ball, n., and Ballet.] A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
Thucydides, in quoting the _Hymn to Apollo_, calls it PROOIMION, which ordinarily means a “prelude” chanted by a rhapsode before recitation of a lay from Homer, and such hymns as Nos.
Quotes with RECITATION (3)
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered — a healing of the soul. Even our language points to this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, this is even more striking: heilig, heil and heilen.) Muslims believe that all humans are born in a state of purity, our fitra, and it is only in the course of our lives that we tarnish our soul through bad habits and wrong behaviour. Through spiritual practices such as prayer, r…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–1974).