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cap·tious

s) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar.
Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English capcious, from Old French captieux, from Latin captisus, from capti, seizure, sophism, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
captious·ly (Adverb), captious·ness (Noun)

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