Definitions for "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.
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
( v.i.) To affirm that you don't know what you're talking about. A typical dictionary will claim that to recapitulate actually means "to review" or "to summarize", but consider its composition: the verb capitulate, meaning "to give up", "to acquiesce", "to surrender", and the prefix re-, which signifies the intensification or repetition of the verb it is attached to.