Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/04/2015 - 20:06
definition:
The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class:
sentence:
Benjamin Franklin must have been the quintessence of self-improvement because he actually made a list of thirteen important virtues and tracked his progress in abiding by the list.
The corruption scandal was reported as the quintessence of dirty politics.
difficulty:
hard
toefl frequency:
1