climactic or climatic?
Climactic, coming from climax, means "exciting or decisive" and "forming a climax," as in The hard-fought election was climactic [not climatic]. In a climactic [not climatic] passage, the author kills off the heroine.Climatic, coming from climate, means "relating to weather changes," as in severe climatic [not climactic] changes caused by global warming.
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