Vocabulary learning comes from studying "roots, cells, or stems" in our word puzzles as well as "prefixes and suffixes".
The root CEPT meaning "take, get, go, receive" has the following 16 "everyday words". Some of them are derived from the list of 20 possible prefixes and 14 number-related prefixes below:
acCEPTable, antiCIPate, conCEPT, deCEPTion, emanCIPate, exCEPTion, imperCEPTible, inCEPTion, interCEPT, partiCIPate, perCEPTive, prinCIPle, preCEPT, reCEPTacle, reCEPTive, susCEPTible.
See if any of these number-related prefixes can be used with CEPT to create a word:
  • AB = away ---------- acCEPTable
  • AD = to, toward
  • CIRCUM = around
  • CON-COM = with ---------- conCEPT
  • CONTRA = against
  • DE = down, from ----------- deCEPTion
  • E(X) = out of, outside --------- exCEPTion
  • EXTRA = beyond
  • IN-EN = in, into ----------- inCEPTion
  • INTER = between ---------interCEPT
  • OB = against
  • PER = through, across ---------- perCEPTive
  • POST = after
  • PRE = before, toward -------- preCEPT
  • PR0 = before, forward
  • RE = again ----------- reCEPTacle, reCEPTive
  • RETRO = backward
  • SUB = under, below ---------suCEPTible
  • TELE = far
  • TRANS = across
Prefixes that are number-related where some may be used with CEPT:
  • PRIMO = first, most
  • ULTI = last
  • UNI = one
  • BI-DI = two
  • TRI = three
  • QUAD = four
  • DEC = ten
  • CENT = hundred
  • MULTI = many
  • PLU = more
  • OMNI = all
  • AMBI = both
  • EQUI-PAR= equal
  • SEMI = half
For those of you who want some really high-powered, SAT*-type words that come form the root CEPT-CAP-CIP try defining these 9:
CAPacious, CAPstan, CAPtious, CAPtivate, inCIPient, inCAPacitate, prinCIPality, reCIPient, unexCEPTionable.

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Jan and Carey Orr Cook and the VOCAB Team

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