(n) the highest point

s:  summit, top, peak, pinnacle

a:  low point, bottom, nadir

(n) a quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or somethin; (v) to assign to, credit with, to regard as caused by or resulting from

s:  (n) traint; (v) ascribe

(v) to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value

s:  minimize, underrate, disparage

a:  exaggerate, magnify, overestimate

(v) to transpor; to transmit to communicate, make known, to transfer ownership or title to

s:  carry, send, impart

(v) to remove by cutting; (n) an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale or distribution of a commodity or service

s:  (v) cut out, expunge

a:  (v) put in, interpolate

(adj) foreign, charmingly unfamiliar or strkinglyunusual

s:  strange, alien, picturesque, colorful

a:  native, indigeous, familiar, commonplace

(adj) thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking

s:  drawn, gaunt, wasted

a:  healthy, glowing, hale and hearty

(adj) lively, easy and carefree in manner, smart or trim in appearance

s:  unconverned, lighthearted

a:  downcast, dejected, glum

(n) a joining together; the point at which two things are joined any important point in time

s:  union, seam, join, turning point

(adj) lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity; (n) a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks

s:  (n) underling, scullion, servant

a:  (adj) lofty, elevated; (n) boss, master

(v) to ward off, fend off, evade, avoid; (n) a defensive movement in fencing and other sports

(adj) preying on, pludering, or piratical

s:  looting, pillaging, ravenous, rapacious

(v) to destroy, lay waste, ruin; (n) ruinous damage, destruction

s:  (v) wreck, devastate

a:  (v) spare

(n) a way of holding the body, an attitude or position on an issue

s:  posture, bearing

(adj) showy and flashy but lacking in good taste

s:  loud, gaudy, tacky, vulgar

a:  refined, tasteful, subdued, muted

(n) a person who switches to an opposing side or party

s:  quisling, deserter, renegade

a:  loyalist, diehard

(adj) not putting on airs, unpretentious; modest

a:  conceited, pretentious, self-important

(v) to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance (n) a wet, muddy or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse

s:  (v) delight in, bask in

(v) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision

s:  hestitate

a:  stand firm, be resolute