capit, capt

This vocabulary list features words with the Latin roots capit and capt, meaning "head."
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  1. capital
    a seat of government
  2. capitol
    a building occupied by a state legislature
  3. capitulation
    the act of surrendering, usually under agreed conditions
  4. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  5. decapitate
    cut the head off of
  6. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  7. per capita
    relating to each person individually
  8. capitalize
    write in large alphabetic characters
  9. caption
    brief description accompanying an illustration
  10. capitalism
    an economic system based on private ownership of assets
Created on Tue Jun 03 17:30:11 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 17:33:37 EDT 2025)

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