accomplish vs culminate

accomplish and culminate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accomplish	No	No	Yes	No
culminate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, culminate is a hyponym of accomplish; that is, culminate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than accomplish:

Other hyponyms of accomplish include score, get to, make, progress to, reach, begin, come to, strike, compass, average, finagle, manage, wangle.

accomplish (verb)	culminate (verb)
put in effect	end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
to gain with effort	rise to, or form, a summit
	bring to a head or to the highest point
	reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
	reach the highest or most decisive point