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pertaining to or coming to a climax: the climactic scene of a play.
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Climactic
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- Two mean white rednecks ring in the climactic cliché.
- Instead of attending the annual festival's climactic spectacle-the torching of a.
- At the same time climactic changes have increased the frequency of fires.
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Word Origin & History
climactic
1872, from climax, apparently on the analogy of syntax/syntactic.
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