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–noun
1. a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
2. a period or state of little or no growth or decline: to reach a plateau in one's career.
3. Psychology. a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.
4. a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table.
–verb (used without object)
5. to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline, esp. to stop increasing or progressing; remain at a stable level of achievement; level off: After a period of uninterrupted growth, sales began to plateau.
–verb (used with object)
6. to cause to remain at a stable level, esp. to prevent from rising or progressing: Rising inflation plateaued sales income.
Vaughan, who drives around in a black 1963 Lincoln convertible in homage to JFK, is the prime mover of the group, the pathfinder who believes in pushing the envelope of danger and sex to arrive at a new physical, psychological and sexual plateau.
A veritable sexaholic, James keeps things going with Catherine, Helen and Gabrielle, and his new link with Vaughan leads to their having their wounds tattooed, followed by a bout of nasty sex.
pinnacle
that was the pinnacle of their [career]
meridian
the meridian [hour]
He was at the meridian of his [power] then.
apex
cusp
on the cusp of a [new] era.
ferrule
metal casting placed over the wooden tip of an umbrella
ferule
wooden ruler to punish schoolchildren, figuratively discipline
foil
Loyal troops foiled his [attempt] to overthrow the government.
The [straight] man was an able foil to the [comic].
and proved an [apt] foil for the leering one-liners of Bob "Cherchez la Femme" Hope in Paris Holiday (1957) and Call Me Bwana (1963).
corona
wide-eyed and pouty, with a great corona of frizzy [hair]
Debilitate
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