pensum
📖 Definitions
noun
A task given, especially as a punishment.
💬 Usage Examples
“I preferred this to the hand-cramping pensums Mademoiselle would think up, such as making me copy out two hundred times the proverb Qui aime bien, châtie bien [Spare the rod and spoil the child].” Vladimir Nabokov; Speak, Memory; Victor Gollancz; 1951.