Word Study List for Lesson #5

Root Words Focus: cap, ceiv, cept (to take, seize,

or receive)
1. capable having the ability; able to do something; able to seize an opportunity
2. capacity the ability to hold, take in, or absorb
3. caption a title or short description of a picture
4. capture to take possession or control of something; to take someone against
his or her will; to preserve in a permanent form
5. decapitate to take the head off of something
6. conceivable able to be believed or imagined; to take in or accept a plan or
idea
7. deceive to make someone believe something that's not true; to take a wrong
opinion about something
8. misconceive to accept or take in a plan or idea with a wrong understanding of
something
9. perceive to believe or take in an understanding or thought of something or
someone in a particular way

receive to be given something; to take or seize something given to you

11. acceptable something good enough to be taken for a particular purpose
12. concept the idea of how something is, or how it should be taken
13. except to not take something
14. intercept to stop someone from taking or seizing something
15. reception a place to take guests when they first arrive
10.