All 5 Uses of
recite
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Cold Sassy Tree
- Granny didn't sit on the porch reading Greek and Latin and Shakespeare, or get up lectures for children, or recite poetry.†
- You had to recite a poem to get in.†
- No matter how bad we recited, Granny always clapped loud.†
- Her voice had got mechanical, like she was reciting a story she'd read in the newspaper -one that didn't have anything to do with her.
*reciting = saying or reading something aloud
- I hadn't really decided which Bible verses to recite.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(recite) to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The noun form, recitation, normally refers to the act of reciting or to what was recited; however, much more rarely, it can refer to a session in which a teaching assistant reviews and expands on a teacher's lecture.