Foreign Words in English * 4 * Flashcards
1
Q
bon appétit
A
enjoy your meal
French - “good appetite”
2
Q
faux pas
A
an embarrassing blunder
French - “false step”
3
Q
femme fatale
A
a dangerous, seductive woman
French - “disastrous woman”
4
Q
ersatz
A
inferior substitute or imitation
German - “substitute”
5
Q
haute couture (usually just “couture”)
A
the designing and making of clothes by leading fashion houses
French - “high dressmaking”
6
Q
fiasco
A
disaster
Italian
7
Q
gung-ho
A
enthusiastic, zealous
Chinese - “work together”
8
Q
habeas corpus
A
an order to bring a jailed person before a judge or court to find out if that person should really be in jail
Latin - “you shall have the body”
9
Q
guru
A
spiritual leader
Hindi
10
Q
ipso facto
we had this on Crucible vocab
A
by the very fact or act of
Latin - “by the fact itself”
