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Recapitulate

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

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Double 76% connected

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Duplicate 76% connected

Double; twofold.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Reduplicate 76% connected

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

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Repeat 76% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Replicate 76% connected

To reply.

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Resume 76% connected

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

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Summarize 76% connected

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.

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Manner of action 2

Rehash 76% connected

To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

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Retrograde 76% connected

Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

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Derivationally related 2

Recapitulation 74% connected

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Recapitulation 74% connected

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, a…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Repeat 92% connected

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reprise 92% connected

A taking by way of retaliation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reprize 92% connected

See Reprise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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