Foreign Words Flashcards by lauren Dixon | Brainscape

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Ad hoc

A

For a definite purpose

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A priori

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Based on deduction, not fact

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Ad nauseum

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Continuing to a disgusting degree

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Alfresco

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Outdoors

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Bête noire

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Something disliked

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Carte blanche

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Blank check or freedom

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Casus belli

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Justification for war

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Caveat emptor

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Buyer beware

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Comme il faut

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Like it should be

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Corpus delicti

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Evidence of a crime

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Coup de grace

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A deathblow

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De facto

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Actual reality

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De jure

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Truth by technicality

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Deus ex machina

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Implausible answer to a problem

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Ex cathedra

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Absolute authority

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Fait accompli

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Completed deed

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Faux pas

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Mistakes made socially

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Idee fixe

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An idea one obsesses on

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In extremis

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Near death

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In loco parentis

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Acting in a parent’s stead

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In vino veritas

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Truth is found in wine

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Ipso facto

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In and of itself

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Joie de vivre

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Joy of living

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Modus operandi

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Way of working

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Noblesse oblige

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The way nobility must behave

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Nolo contendere

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No contest

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Nom de plume

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Pen name

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Non sequitur

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Doesn’t follow logically

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Per se

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By or in itself

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Persona non grata

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Someone disliked

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Prima facie

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At first look

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Pro forma

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Done as a formality

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Quid pro quo

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An exchange

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Raison d’être

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Reason for being

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Rara avis

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Rare example

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Sangfroid

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Cool under pressure

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Schadenfreude

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Satisfaction from another’s misery

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Sine qua non

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Very important

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Sui generis

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Unique

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Tete-a-tete

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A private conversation

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Verboten

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Forbidden

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Vis-a-vis

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In relation to

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Weltschmerz

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Sadness because of the world’s evils

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Zeitgeist

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Popular opinion of the time