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   Cap·i·tol

   /ˈkapədl/

   

   • 1. the seat of the US Congress in Washington, DC.
   • ▪ a building housing a legislative assembly: US "50,000 people marched on New Jersey's state capitol"
   • 2. the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome.

   Word Origin from Old French capitolie, capitoile, later assimilated to Latin Capitolium (from caput, capit- ‘head’).

   Scrabble Points: 11

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