Direction: Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word.

The correct spelling is quintessence, from the medieval Latin quinta essentia, the "fifth essence", and it means the purest or most perfect example of something. The other spellings go wrong in the unstressed syllables: the ending is -essence, never -essance or -assance, and the first syllable is quint-, not quaint-.