GRE Word List
CULMINATION
the action of culminating
The meaning of the word culmination is the action of culminating.
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| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| hover | to position (a computer cursor) over something (such as an image or icon) without selecting it |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
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