GRE Word List

CULMINATION

the action of culminating

The meaning of the word culmination is the action of culminating.

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WordMeaning
orificean opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass
inasmuch_assince; owing to the fact that
chideto speak out in angry or displeased rebuke
tribunea Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
seclusionthe act of secluding : the condition of being secluded
savorthe taste or smell of something
repulseto drive or beat back : repel
transitiona change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another
remediablecapable of being remedied