The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROTE
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More clues leading to the result ROTE
- Mechanical repetition of sacred text in religious lessons
- About to absorb old books as a way to learn
- Books in scripture studies for mechanical routine
- Corrupt English teaching system
- Parrot exercises, essentially
- Tore apart systematic means of learning
- Made out audible meaningless repetition
- Degenerate English teaching by this?
- Repetition this inept one issues regardless of the effective origins
- Penned without memorisation
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What does ROTE mean?
ROTE noun- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
- To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
- To learn or repeat by rote.
- By repetition or practice.
- The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.
- A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.