pensum means A task or imposition set as a school punishment. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- A task or imposition set as a school punishment.“You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.”