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Rondeau :: Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule..

Premium :: Premium (n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc..

Recitation :: Recitation (n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

Ingemination :: Ingemination (n.) Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.

Emulative :: Emulative (a.) Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort..

Asking :: Asking (n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor..

Orator :: Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner..

Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy..

Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..

Rote :: Rote (n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote..

Sympode :: Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth..

Appetition :: Appetition (n.) Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something..

Entreaty :: Entreaty (n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.

Grace :: Grace (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal..

Replica :: Replica (v. & n.) Repetition.

Cough :: Cough (v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease..

Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..

Address :: Address (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)..

Winning :: Winning (n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural..

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