rote: noun; °The process of learning or committing something to memory through repetition, in a mechanical way, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.

"They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote."; °Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

"The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm."; adjective; °By repetition or practice.

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