Foreign Vocab

Question 1

ad hominem

Answer 1

appealing to feeling or prejudices rather than intellect

Question 2

adieu

Answer 2

farewell (French)

Question 3

au contraire

Answer 3

on the contrary (French)

Question 4

belle

Answer 4

pretty (French)

Question 5

bildungsroman

Answer 5

a novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education (German)

Question 6

blase

Answer 6

having or showing a lack of excitement or interesting in something particularly when it is very familiar.

Question 7

c’est la vie

Answer 7

that’s life (French)

Question 8

cachet

Answer 8

an indication of approval carrying great prestige, like a stamp.

Question 9

carte blanche

Answer 9

complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best, blank check (French)

Question 10

charlatan

Answer 10

a fraud (English)

Question 11

doppelganger

Answer 11

a double of a living person (French)

Question 12

double entendre

Answer 12

a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent (French?)

Question 13

elan

Answer 13

energy, enthusiasim (?)

Question 14

ennui

Answer 14

boredom (French)

Question 15

ergo

Answer 15

therefore (?)

Question 16

et al

Answer 16

and others

Question 17

fait accompli

Answer 17

a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept

Question 18

gauche

Answer 18

unsophisticated or socially awkward

Question 19

in medias res

Answer 19

in the middle of a narative

Question 20

je ne sais quoi

Answer 20

a pleasant quality that Is hard to describe

Question 21

joie de vivre

Answer 21

a feeling of happiness or excitement about life

Question 22

n.b.

Answer 22

used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something (Latin)

Question 23

persona non grata

Answer 23

an unacceptable or unwelcome person

Question 24

post hoc ergo propter hoc

Answer 24

after this, therefore because of this

Question 25

quid pro quo

Answer 25

something given or received in exchange for something else

Question 26

re

Answer 26

in the matter of

Question 27

red herring

Answer 27

something, esp. a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting

Question 28

tete-a-tete

Answer 28

a private conversation between two people

Question 29

vis-a-vis

Answer 29

face-to-face

Question 30

zeitgeist

Answer 30

the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time