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Roots and Affixes, Grade 6: cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)

Learn these words derived from the Latin roots cept, capt, and ceive, meaning “take,” “hold,” and “seize.”
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  1. acceptable
    worthy of approval or satisfactory
  2. captor
    a person who entraps and holds someone else
  3. concept
    an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances
  4. deceive
    cause someone to believe an untruth
  5. deception
    the act of misleading
  6. perceive
    become aware of through the senses
  7. intercept
    seize, interrupt, or stop something on its way
  8. recapture
    seize, catch, or take again
  9. reception
    the act of taking in
  10. caption
    brief description accompanying an illustration
Created on Fri May 29 14:34:28 EDT 2026 (updated Fri May 29 14:54:24 EDT 2026)

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