\section{to end list scope}

\begin{itemize}
\item{list}\item{list}\end{itemize}

\begin{itemize}
\item{list}\item{list}\end{itemize}

to prevent captions

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{verbatim}verbatim!\end{verbatim}\caption{untitled}
\end{center}
\end{figure}