1) Acme 2) Apex 3) Apogee 4) Cap 5) Crest 6) Culminate 7) Ending 8) Highspot 9) Increase 10) Orgasm 11) Peak 12) Showdown 13) Summit 14) Top 15) Zenith
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1) City in the Americas 2) City of the United States 3) City in the US 4) City of North America 5) City of the USA 6) City in North America 7) City in the USA 8) City of the Americas 9) City of the US 10) City of Georgia 11) City in the United States 12) City in Georgia 13) Crescendo 14) Culminate 15) Culmination
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• (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. • (v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree. • (v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
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Etymologically derived from the Greek `klimax` meaning ladder. The climax is the `highest` point of anxiety and tension for the audience (or reader in a literary work) where all of the complexities of the story-line meet. Usually the climax is attained at the end of the work but resolve and high dramatic interest do not always occur simultaneously
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former company mining town, Lake county, central Colorado, U.S. It lies in the Park Range of the Rocky Mountains at Fremont Pass (elevation 11,318 ...
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(Greek: `ladder`), in dramatic and nondramatic fiction, the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.[1 related articles]
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in ecology, the final stage of biotic succession attainable by a plant community in an area under the environmental conditions present at a ... [2 related articles]
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1. The height or acme of a disease; its stage of greatest severity. ... Synonym: orgasm. ... Origin: G. Klimax, staircase ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(kli´maks) the period of greatest intensity, as in the course of a disease or in sexual excitement.
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Kind of community achieved in theory by an ecosystem left undisturbed over a long time.
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Cli'max noun [ Latin , from Greek ... ladder, staircase, from ... to make to bend, to lean. See
Ladder ,
Lean ,
intransitive verb ]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
Glanvill. 2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the pa...
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An intense sensation that occurs at the peak of sexual excitement that is accompanied by rhythmic muscle contractions followed by release of sexual tensions. Climax is usually accompanied by ejaculation in men and a gush of vaginal fluid in women. Synonym(s): Orgasm
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Climax is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Climax is slang for amyl nitrate (or any associated inhalant drug).
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a more or less stable community which is in equilibrium with the existing natural environment, e.g a forest. The culminating stage in the ecological succession or evolution of a plant/animal community that has attained stability (equilibrium) and is self-perpetuating.
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arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of ascending power. Often the last emphatic word in one phrase or clause is repeated as the first emphatic word of the next.
*One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Tennyson, Ulysses
*Nonne hunc in vi...
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Climax occurs when words or sentences are used to increase weight by mounting degrees in parallel construction.
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Climax is the highest point of tension or drama in a narrative’s plot. Often, climax is also when the main problem of the story is faced and solved by the main character or protagonist.
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The culminating point of highest tension in a story.
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the turning point or height of a series of actions.
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culmination noun the decisive moment in a novel or play; `the deathbed scene is the climax of the play`
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Figure of speech and literary device in which words or phrases are arranged in a gradually ascending scale of importance in order to build up interest, force, or emotion. The climax is the moment of maximum intensity. It is a feature of oratory. When a sequence apparently moving to a climax is, unexpectedly, interrupted by a weaker element, it is d...
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[Literary terms] the decisive moment in a novel or play
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[Literary terms] the decisive moment in a novel or play
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] the decisive moment in a novel or play
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