retaught

Gave refresher lessons

Retaught is the past tense and past participle of reteach, meaning to teach something again.

Someone might be retaught a skill they've forgotten or never properly learned the first time: After years away from the piano, she had to be retaught basic fingering techniques.

The word implies that previous instruction was incomplete, forgotten, or unsuccessful.

instruction

reinstruct

Teach someone again

  • reeducateInstill revised beliefs
  • tutorIndividual instruction provider
  • mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor

coach · guide · explain · demonstrate · clarify · lecture · instruct · educate · train · school

repetition

drill

Hole-boring device

reinforce · revisit · rehearse · redo · rework · rehash · recapitulate · restate · refresh · renew

correction

amend

Modify or correct

adjust · fix · remedy · correct · reform · refine · emend · update · rework · redress

Opposites
repetition of instruction

retaughtintroduced

Made formally acquainted

untaught

direction of knowledge transfer

retaughtrelearned

Gained back lost knowledge

restudied · reviewed

Family

teach, teaching, taught, teaches, reteaches, unteachable, reteach, unteach, reteaching

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