dictation
noun/dɪkˈteɪʃən/
Frequency rank: #16,945 most common English word
Meaning
the act of speaking words aloud for someone else to write down, or an exercise in which this is done.
Example sentence
The teacher read the passage aloud while students completed dictation in their notebooks.
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