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oratorio

nounCommon GRE wordMore O words

a large-scale musical composition for orchestra and voices on a sacred or serious theme, performed without costumes or staging

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Oratorio in a sentence

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Handel's Messiah remains the most performed oratorio in the Western choral tradition.

Synonyms
cantatacompositionchoral work
Antonyms

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Oratorio (noun) means a large-scale musical composition for orchestra and voices on a sacred or serious theme, performed without costumes or staging
Here is oratorio used in an example sentence: "Handel's Messiah remains the most performed oratorio in the Western choral tradition."
Common synonyms for oratorio include cantata, composition, choral work.
Oratorio is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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