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Extremes

n.

pinnacle

Meaning: the highest point

Usage: Book reviewers declared that the author’s new novel was extraordinary and probably the pinnacle of Western literature.

n.

zenith

Meaning: the highest point, culminating point

Usage: I was too nice to tell Nelly that she had reached the absolute zenith of her career with that one hit of hers.

n.

nadir

Meaning: the lowest point of something

Usage: My day was boring, but the nadir came when I accidentally spilled a bowl of spaghetti on my head.