Capital and Key

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Capital adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: the capital goal of the effort is to assimilate the new immigrants

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Key is a synonym for capital in important topic. In some cases you can use "Key" instead an adjective "Capital".

Key adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: maintains that Sir Isaac Newton remains the key figure in physical science

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Capital is a synonym for key in important topic. Sometimes you can use "Capital" instead an adjective "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

old	old capital	old key
original	original capital	original key
light	light capital	light key
actual	actual capital	actual key
Other adjectives: real, important, necessary, new, major, last, red.

A low-key Borderlands' baron died in the capital, but sent his acknowledged bastard son back home, to the barony outside of Dekara.

Source: Literature / Xenos
Syria's capital, Dimashq (Damascus), is a key city in Christianity, as Paul's conversion took place on the road to it and there is a considerable Christian minority.

Source: Useful Notes / Syria
Big capital fleets squaring off set to dramatic music and voice-over basically sets up half the key missions.

Source: Flaunting Your Fleets

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