Practice and Rite

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Practice noun - A private performance or session in preparation for a public appearance.

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Rite is a synonym for practice in ritual topic. In some cases you can use "Rite" instead a noun "Practice".

Rite noun - An oft-repeated action or series of actions performed in accordance with tradition or a set of rules.

Usage example: the annual summer rite of loading up the car for the big family vacation

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Practice is a synonym for rite in ceremony topic. You can use "Practice" instead a noun "Rite", if it concerns topics such as performance, ritual.

old	old practice	old rite
long	long practice	long rite
similar	similar practice	similar rite
normal	normal practice	normal rite
Other adjectives: common, standard, proper, informal, popular, successful, dangerous, agricultural, sexual, ancient, professional, religious, traditional, universal, cultural, magical.

It's eventually revealed that this is her repressed Yuuzhan Vong personality, Riina, trying to assert herself (the Vong practice ritual scarring- and at high level, other forms of Body Horror- as a status symbol and religious rite).

Source: Self-Harm
It's left up to you whether to refuse to participate in a heathen practice but desecrate a burial ground instead, or to acknowledge a heathen rite and still honor the rest of the fallen.

Source: Video Game / Celestian Tales Old North
Eating human brain is (or was) a practice of several cultures, either as a funeral rite or just part of eating people.

Source: Brain Food

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