recapitulate vs reduplicate

recapitulate and reduplicate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recapitulate	No	No	Yes	No
reduplicate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, reduplicate is a hypernym of recapitulate; that is, reduplicate is a word with a broader meaning than recapitulate:

recapitulate: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
reduplicate: make or do or perform again

Other hypernyms of recapitulate include double, duplicate, repeat, replicate.

recapitulate (verb)	reduplicate (verb)
summarize briefly	make or do or perform again
repeat an earlier theme of a composition	form by reduplication
repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life