GRE Word List
CULMINATION
the action of culminating
The meaning of the word culmination is the action of culminating.
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| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
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| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
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| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
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