Meaning and example
surrender under agreed conditions
The passage used "capitulate" to mean surrender under agreed conditions.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.504 places capitulate in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
capriciousCommon
- Known by
- 93.7%
changeable
felicityCommon
- Known by
- 93.7%
pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
tiradeCommon
- Known by
- 94%
a speech of violent denunciation
altruismCommon
- Known by
- 93.6%
the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
ubiquitousCommon
- Known by
- 94%
being present everywhere at once
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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