All 4 Uses of
recite
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- There is a great rustling as fifty girls stand at attention and recite the pledge, chins tilted upward toward the future.†
Chpt 5 *
- Mademoiselle lifts her arms and we all rise in unison, recite the goodbye.†
Chpt 9
- Two girls skip past us, arm in arm, reciting the poetry they've learned for today's occasion, something to show how much they've become small buds of ladies.†
Chpt 26
- Felicity twirls around the cave, reciting poetry.†
Chpt 35
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.