paragon
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister
General noun
A person or thing regarded as a perfect model of a particular quality.
He was held up as a paragon of integrity, which made his downfall all the more shocking.
Business noun
A person regarded as a perfect model of a particular quality.
Held up as a paragon of ethical leadership, he proved all too human once the accounting scandal broke.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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