fire drill vs recitation

fire drill and recitation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fire drill	Yes	No	No	No
recitation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recitation is a hypernym of fire drill; that is, recitation is a word with a broader meaning than fire drill:

fire drill: an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire
recitation: systematic training by multiple repetitions

Other hypernyms of fire drill include drill, exercise, practice, practice session.

fire drill (noun)	recitation (noun)
an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire	systematic training by multiple repetitions
	a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study
	a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
	written matter that is recited from memory