GRE vocabulary
culmination
the highest or final point reached after a development
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Common questions
Questions about “culmination”
Culmination (noun) means the highest or final point reached after a development
Here is culmination used in an example sentence: "The award was the culmination of decades of patient research."
Common synonyms for culmination include climax, peak, pinnacle, apex.
Antonyms of culmination include beginning, start, nadir.
Culmination is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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