Base and Spire

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Base noun - An immaterial thing upon which something else rests.

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Spire is an antonym for base.

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Spire noun - A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.

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Base is an antonym for spire in tower topic.

Nearby Words: spiral, spiring, spired, spirally

high	high base	high spire
complete	complete base	complete spire
entire	entire base	entire spire
massive	massive base	massive spire
Other adjectives: large, big, huge, black, isolated, ancient, final, larger, next, nearby, giant, largest.

Grimm considers the prisoners of war he captured sent to work at the base of the spire to be this.Grimm: I've seen that place.

Source: Literature / The Cinder Spires
In the mission before that, you lead an attack on a Covenant base and have a ship destroy a spire that has some unknown purpose.

Source: Shoot The Shaggy Dog / Video Games
There's a secret underground entrance so people not in the know won't find out where his base is (even though the lair's high ceiling looks like the interior of the Chrysler Building's spire might be expected to look).

Source: Landmarking the Hidden Base

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