recitation
/ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/ noun C2- The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
- The material recited.
- A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
- A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.
- A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
Plural recitations
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Every other Friday afternoon she has recitations and everybody has to say a piece or take part in a dialogue.
And the Friday afternoons they don’t have recitations Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a ‘field’ day and they study ferns and flowers and birds.
We had recitations this afternoon.
But all the field afternoons and recitation Fridays and physical culture contortions paled before a project which Miss Stacy brought forward in November.
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