pinnacle 
pin·na·cle (pin′ə kəl)
noun
- a small turret or spire on a buttress or a supporting pier
- a pointed formation, as at the top of a mountain; peak
- the highest point; culmination; acme
Etymology: ME pinacle < MFr < LL(Ec) pinnaculum, dim. L pinna, pinnacle, feather: see pen
transitive verb pinnacled -·cled, pinnacling -·cling
- to set on a pinnacle
- to furnish or adorn with pinnacles
- to form the pinnacle of
pinnacle
n.
Converse of object
- reach: You have now reached the pinnacle of your career.
- represent: The FA Premier League represents the pinnacle of English club football.
Converse of subject
- surmount: Between the lofty windows are pilasters the height of the walls, surmounted by small pinnacles, which gives the front a handsome appearance.
Adjective modifier
- crocketed: Deep stone frieze below eaves, 2 Coade stone crocketed pinnacles survive.
- crocketted: At the corners of the tower are bold buttresses, surmounted by octagonal turrets, with crocketted pinnacles.
- rocky: Their windswept rocky pinnacle in the ocean offered them neither personal experience nor cultural memory of trees, never mind forests.
- lofty: It was afterward placed on the loftiest pinnacle of the Tower of London.
- coral: The Islands The Islands are a number of shallow reefs and coral pinnacles with deeper sandy gulleys between them.
- absolute: A perfect fusion of Honda and Rover, and the absolute pinnacle of the relationship.
Noun used with modifier
- limestone: The bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with over 3,000 limestone pinnacles & islands that emerge from its emerald green waters.
- sandstone: By day three we were in the modest town of Douentza after a magical afternoon bus ride through towering mesas and unlikely sandstone pinnacles.
- rock: A more recent shot taken from the car park area just visible in the picture below, in the distance behind the rock pinnacle.
Preposition: of
- temple: Following Luke's account the second temptation was the challenge of the pinnacle of the temple.
- achievement: A pinnacle of achievement must be the award to the school of Arts Status.
- evolution: We are simply the pinnacle of evolution, we're along the lines of all other animals.
- rock: It's a pinnacle of rock that attracts a mass of fish.
- racing: The Masters World Champs was for so many the pinnacle of this years racing.
- creation: Men believe mankind to be the pinnacle of creation, indeed created in God's own image.
We have been too comfortable and too indulgentömany, perhaps, too selfishöand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.
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