Definitions for recitation

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recitation rec·i·ta·tion

Spelling: [res-i-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌrɛs ɪˈteɪ ʃən/

Recitation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 658 anagrams from letters in recitation (aceiinortt).

Definitions for recitation

noun

1. an act of reciting.
2. a reciting or repeating of something from memory, especially formally or publicly.
3. oral response by a pupil or pupils to a teacher on a prepared lesson.
4. a period of classroom instruction.
5. an elocutionary delivery of a piece of poetry or prose, without the text, before an audience.
6. a piece so delivered or for such delivery.

Origin of recitation

1475-85; Latin recitātiōn- (stem of recitātiō), equivalent to recitāt(us) (past participle of recitāre to recite) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for recitation

She had no word ready when called on for a recitation herself.

We sit patiently through a recitation in English literature.

She overslept and missed her first recitation yesterday morning.

She was really so troubled that her recitation marks were not as high as they should have been.

The Rigvedis and Yajurvedis have some differences in their methods of recitation.

The first class in Geography is so large that we have not room in the recitation seats.

Poindexter followed with a recitation of the Iran program filled with deliberate inaccuracies.

Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites.

The recitation, in truth, becomes the simple game of "hot and cold."

Things were made harder, too, by the manner of recitation, as traditional as the words.