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Geography: hills & mountains
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clifftop
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esker
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Marilyn
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motte
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pike
scarp
slope
spur
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the Adirondack Mountains
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pinnacle | American Dictionary

pinnacle
noun
us/ˈpɪn·ə·kəl/

pinnaclenoun (SUCCESSFUL POINT)

[ Cusually sing ]
the most successful point:
The Olympics represent the pinnacle of athletic achievement.

pinnaclenoun (TOP)

[ Cusually pl ]
a small pointed structure on top of a building, or a pointed top on a mountain:
The volcanic range is extremely rugged, with many cliffs, gorges, canyons, and pinnacles.

Examples of pinnacle

pinnacle
You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
The aggradation of the pinnacles, with increasing proportion of metazoan builders, was followed during the continuous rise and eventual stillstand of sea-level.
The summit also contains the most extensive areas of snow-free warm or steaming ground, fumaroles and ice towers or pinnacles.
To the west of this is the great narthex with, behind, the complex façade of pinnacles, mosaic decoration and sculpture.
At the submarine western and northeastern flanks of the island, broad areas of pinnacles and ridges have been detected.
The crosses indicate towers and pinnacles for exhaust.
The architecturally elaborate front south towers rise into octagon spires, leaving square turrets with pinnacles at the four corners that are exhaust stacks for the ventilation system.
Moreover, each was located at the pinnacle of a huge bureaucracy that greatly reduced personal information costs.
Now labelled as 'positivism' and described negatively, archival research has fallen from its pinnacle of high esteem.
The pinnacle of skill in all these definitions are slate-makers, but even specialists within slate-making are not the "true" quarriers.
To the left are entry towers with pinnacle exhaust outlets.
By 1817, however, he was a man of good judgment, and, perhaps because he had reached the pinnacle of politics, he was relaxed and self-confident.
Unbeknownst to her, in her early twenties, she was at the pinnacle of her career.
The biostrome facies characteristically developed as broad, laterally continuous reef complexes which became discontinuous down depositional dip into isolated bioherms and pinnacle reefs.
To achieve pinnacles in any medium of art one needs very broad bases.
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