Foreign-Popular Flashcards
Galore.
As much as you like. Until your heart is content.
AD LIBITUM: At your leisure.
A GOGO
Inductive reasoning:
Inferring the cause from the observed effect.
Reasoning the cause from the effect.
EMPIRICAL (observed, experienced) based.
A POSTERIORI
Deductive reasoning:
Inferring an effect from a theory or hypothesis.
Reasoning the effect from a cause through logic. Cause & effect.
THEORETICAL (conclusions from ‘it-follows’ logic) based.
A PRIORI
At one’s leisure.
Not indispensable or obligatory.
AD LIBITUM
“For the case”
Appointed to represent someone incapable of representing themselves (incapacitated, unavailable, incompetent)
AD LITEM
Self confidence or assurance in light of a demanding situation.
Poise, composed
OR
Perpendicular, upright, vertically situated
APLOMB
Made for a particular customer or usage.
BESPOKE
Unimpressed or indifferent due to overexposure.
BLASÉ
Characteristically middle class with its perceived materialistic values and conventional attitudes.
BOURGEOIS (bourgeoisie)
Seize the day/night.
CARPE DIEM/NOCTEM
Act of overthrowing.
OR
A successful stroke or move.
COUP
Knockout blow.
OR
The event that serves as the culmination of a deteriorating situation.
COUP DE GRACE
Seizure of power.
COUP D’ETAT
Easing of hostilities.
Armistice, truce, ceasefire, cessation of hostilities.
DETENTE
“God from a machine”
Unexpected power saves a hopeless situation.
Often a contrived plot device.
DEUS EX MACHINA
Sprightliness of spirit, with a lively intelligence.
ESPRIT
Feeling of pride, fellowship, and loyalty shared by members of a group.
ESPRIT DE CORPS
“Economic man”
Views humans as self-interested agents who seek utility-maximizing outcomes.
HOMO ECONOMICUS
Extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
IMBROGLIO
Mark of approval or endorsement.
HISTORICALLY:
License by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical book.
IMPRIMATUR
Among other things.
INTER ALIA
By that fact or act.
The direct consequence of the specific action in question.
IPSO FACTO
The occurrence of an accident itself implies negligence.
RES IPSA LOQUITUR
Quality that cannot be adequately expressed in words.
An ineffable trait.
JE NE SAIS QUOI
Act in an excessively subservient manner.
Fawning, cowering, prostrating EFFUSIVELY.
KOWTOW
Pen name, alias, or pseudonym.
NON DE PLUME
Argument having conclusions not supported by its premises.
It does not logically follow…
NON SEQUITUR
Unusual and startling.
Offbeat, unorthodox, unconventional, bizarre
Out-of-bounds to the ordinary.
OUTRE’
For this occasion only.
PRO HAC VICE
As needed.
OR
For a particular purpose.
AD HOC
Concerning workers or the working class regarded collectively.
PROLETARIAN (proletariat)
Reason for existence; the justification.
RAISON D’ETRE
Disproof of a proposition by showing the absurdity to which it leads when carried to its logical conclusion.
REDUCTIO AD ABSURDAM
Brought back.
Revived or resurrected into popularity.
Made fashionable once again.
REDUX
Person that tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
RACONTEUR
In a class alone (one of a kind).
Unique, peculiar, singular.
A SUI GENERIS authority - one that must be confided to its own facts, and is not appropriate for further extrapolation.
SUI GENERIS
An over-abundance of something.
A superabundance, plethora, or oversupply.
Opposite of a DEARTH
SURFEIT
The lowest point in fortunes of a person or organization.
The anticlimax or lowest depths.
Opposite of ZENITH, VERTEX, PINNACLE or SUMMIT.
NADIR
A good or praiseworthy deed.
MITZVAH
The wise word was stated. No need to say another word,
VERBUM SAP
