Jennifer Bilek
Mass Com 100W M/W 12pm
Word #4
Word: Quintessential
Source: Fleming C. (2008). The Authenticators: ESPN, 11(19), 80.
How it was used: “A Hunt auction at 2008’s MLB Fan Fest, scheduled for before the last-ever All-Star Game played at Yankee Stadium, would be the ideal setting for this quintessential piece of Bombers history.”
Definition: (noun)
1. The pure and concentrated essence of a substance.
2. The most perfect embodiment of something.
3. (In ancient and medieval philosophy) the fifth essence or element, ether, supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, the others being air, fire, earth, and water.
Your sentence: Winning the first place metal in the national swimming meet was the quintessential part of my high school career.
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