The version of recap that has verb stress means to cap again. The shortened version of recapitulate ordinarily takes the stress on the first syllable. As for ab

The version of recap that has verb stress means to cap again. The shortened version of recapitulate ordinarily takes the stress on the first syllable. As for absent as a verb, it's rarely used in the present tense, though absented isn't all that uncommon ("I absented myself.").