Assignment
Assignment noun - Something assigned to be read or studied.
Usage example: have you read the assignment for tomorrow?
Lesson is a synonym for assignment in event topic. In some cases you can use "Lesson" instead a noun "Assignment".
Lesson
Lesson noun - Something assigned to be read or studied.
Usage example: your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions
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Synonyms for Lesson
Assignment is a synonym for lesson in exercise topic. You can use "Assignment" instead a noun "Lesson", if it concerns topics such as event, information taught.
How words are described
| good | good assignment | good lesson |
| nice | nice assignment | nice lesson |
| particular | particular assignment | particular lesson |
| short | short assignment | short lesson |
| Other adjectives: perfect, current, original, single, simple, actual, entire, real, tough, big, important, new, early, major, final, next, last, recent. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The Cardinal claims that the assignment was not intended as a punishment, but as a lesson in humility.
Source: Series / Oz - Spoofed in the Tanya Huff novel The Better Part of Valor when the main character explains how she wound up with a terrible assignment and says the lesson to be learned is, "never call your commanding officer a bastard to his face."
Source: Captain Obvious Aesop -
This turns out to be a poor assignment of resources.Blair: As a final lesson.
Source: Literature / Illuminated
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