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- noun Alternative spelling of
memorization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun learning so as to be able to remember verbatim
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Examples
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Long-term memorisation of vocabulary has never been my strong point.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Long-term memorisation of vocabulary has never been my strong point.
Latin ate my brain! 2005
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Adding that "Methods, such as memorisation of text, are better suited to the madrassah Islamic curriculum."
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Adding that "Methods, such as memorisation of text, are better suited to the madrassah Islamic curriculum."
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Worse still, the student gets into the habit of confusing learning with memorisation, and can't get out of this bad habit.
Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009
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In my experience as a university lecturer, the cinfusion of memorisation with learning is the second biggest cause of failure (laziness is the first, lack of intelligence is way behind).
Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Indeed, elaborative processing is such a powerful memorisation technique that it appears not to matter whether you are trying to learn the elaborated information.
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Luckily, the crowded routine of rehearsal, memorisation, and performance does not leave much time for brooding.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Let's first look at how they can be used to learn foreign vocabulary – one of the trickiest and most onerous memorisation tasks around.
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My independent high school was the only one I know of in the region which actually devoted an entire term of English class to the study and memorisation of grammar and syntax. stick Says:
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