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memorization by repetition- She memorized her lesson by rote, but never really understood it.
rote = memorization by repetition
- "They will get used to it," the soldier said as if the words were rote in his mouth.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- TITANIA First, rehearse your song by rote, To each word a warbling note; Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- (By rote; a kind of almost-tearful recitation) Our son.Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The major difficulty in training animals is that they operate either by instinct or by rote.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- He felt calm, like an actor reciting his lines by rote.Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
- "Mark it with your initials," said Mr. Dark, by rote.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Instead of being a rote learning thing, there's a pattern I can figure out.Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
- Now, our voices were so many fewer, so tired and broken, dragging through the notes by rote.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Rote prayers, but prayers all the same.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- I watch his mouth, lip-reading the Polish phrases he's learned by rote.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- She gave him his breakfast and he watched her and he listened as she spoke by rote.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- And don't take us too seriously when we turn up our noses at rote learning.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- The preacher, a tired little pinched-face man in a shabby black suit, said the service by rote and read a short, impersonal prayer.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- I come out of a country where educated men are promoted at the whim of morons who recite Marxist litany by rote.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- Eragon lost himself in the arcane glyphs, happy to have a task that required nothing more strenuous than rote memorization.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Sansa knew the words by rote.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- I fret on that all through drama, flub my lines every time the thought blankets my brain, disrupts rote memory.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- Sorcerers often won't bother with such rote necessities—their energies and instincts are so great that they can simply improvise what they need.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
rote = memorized by repetition
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