[ noun ] an examination conducted by spoken communication <noun.communication>
Viva \Vi"va\, interj. [It.] Lit., (long) live; -- an exclamation expressing good will, well wishing, etc. -- n. The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
A wilder burst of ``vivas''. --R. H. Davis. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
There was a viva, it seemed, for almost every demand and ideal bottled up within this country's disenfranchised black population.