rote
noun/roʊt/
Frequency rank: #14,249 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
Learning through mechanical repetition rather than true understanding.
Example sentence
She memorized the poem by rote without really understanding its meaning.
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