Today’s “Word of the Day” is quintessential and it is an adjective meaning “being the most perfect & typical example of something; classic, ideal, consummate, exemplary, best, ultimate”.
Example Sentence: When an officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) came to interrogate Father Stan Swamy last monsoon, the Jesuit sociologist, then 83, in turn asked him about police integrity (morality), and why a father-son duo (P. Jayaraj and Bennicks) should die of custodial torture in a Tamil Nadu police lock-up. It was quintessential Fr. Swamy: unafraid, outspoken, and questioning injustice.
This word is present in The Hindu article In a passing, the larger picture of dispossession and click here to read it.
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