nadir - SAT Word

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nadir 
  ( SAT Prep - Sample Word )
This word "nadir" often comes up in the SAT. Of the choices below which is the closest in meaning?
toxic
good for you
rock bottom
mellisonant




Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'nadir':
  The lowest point.
  that is directly below the observer (90 degrees below the
  A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith.
  ). Compare
  The point on the

Synonyms of word 'nadir' :
 low-water mark

Antonym of word 'nadir' :
  zenith

Usage of the word 'nadir' in Sentences :
  In the first Test at Lord's they reached a nadir of 131 for eight in response to England's 551 for six declared.
  nadir in the early 1980s.
  The weather is regarded as the very nadir and scoff of conversational topics.
  nadir viewing instruments onboard Aqua and therefore look directly down at the Earth's surface below.
  The mean platelet count nadir measured was approximately 40 % of baseline.
  Secondly, the result marked the nadir ( so far ) in the long-term decline of the Labor party.
  The neutrophil nadirs were higher in the GM-CSF group during the first three cycles and subsequently similar in both groups.
  The mean platelet count nadir measured was approximately 40 % of baseline.
  This, surely, represents the nadir of Saturday night programming on the channel.
  The tenth century saw Christianity at a lower nadir than at any time to the present.
  However, the prognostic value of this nadir level depends on most men achieving a nadir of 0.2 ng/ml or less.
  Sales rose in October and now are 8 per cent higher than in February, where they touched the nadir.
  Will they hit the nadir of stereotyping as they did in the Fowler's Irish escapade?

Usage of the word 'nadir' in popular media :
Washington Post   —
 the u.s. job market has rebounded from its july 2009 nadir, when the labor department reported that there were just 2.3 million job openings nationwide..... read more ››
 the nadir for maryland in that department came in a perplexing 78-69 loss to visiting boston college on jan. 13, when the terrapins missed 16 of 28 free throws for their lowest percentage of the season..... read more ››
 indeed, in the most recent washington post-abc news poll, levels of dissatisfaction for the first time equaled those for the iraq war at its nadir..... read more ››
 ah, no. spelling in this country as at an all-time nadir; must we encourage further decline?.... read more ››
 the plugging and pr for morgan's show reached a nadir in the final hours before its debut, when cnn's other anchors - blitzer, spitzer, blinkin' and blonde - were made to interview morgan about his godly debut. .... read more ››

Wall Street Journal   —
 still, for the year the stock is still up almost 8% (outstripping the hang seng indexæ’??s gain of just over 1%), after trading at a large discount to its competitors since the stockæ’??s nadir in 2008.... read more ››
 at its close tuesday of 1324.57, the s&p 500 is just points away from doubling off its 666.79 intraday nadir, reached in the darkest moments of the financial crisis in march 2009..... read more ››
 he increased his drinking and appearances on television simultaneouslyæ’??an ill-advised combination which reached a nadir when he crudely propositioned whitney houston on a chat show, and then translated his comments into robustly anglo-saxon english for the singer's benefit after the host refused to do so..... read more ››




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