spiel vs recapitulate

spiel is a noun but recapitulate is not a noun.

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

As verbs, recapitulate is a hyponym of spiel; that is, recapitulate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spiel:

Other hyponyms of spiel include riff, misplay, fiddle, replay, prelude, jazz, rag, bugle, repeat, reprise, reprize, slur, bang out, modulate, tongue.

spiel (noun)	recapitulate (noun)
plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)

spiel (verb)	recapitulate (verb)
speak at great length (about something)	summarize briefly
replay (as a melody)	repeat an earlier theme of a composition
	repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life