List 1 Foreign Vocab

Question 1

Savoir-faire (n)

Answer 1

Origin: French
Def: To have a worldly knowledge of things

Question 2

Enfant Terrible (n)

Answer 2

Origin: French
Def: someone childish, misbehaved, or outrageous

Question 3

Dilettante (n)

Answer 3

Origin: Italian
Def: someone who dabbles in everything; usually with a negative connotation

Question 4

Weltanschauung (n)

Answer 4

Origin: German
Def: worldview

Question 5

Raison d’être (n)

Answer 5

Origin: French
Def: reason for being

Question 6

Hoi polloi (n)

Answer 6

Origin: Greek
Def: the people

Question 7

Chutzpah (n)

Answer 7

Origin: Yiddish
Def: nerve, gall

Question 8

Doppelgänger (n)

Answer 8

Origin: German
Def: looks like you in an uncanny way

Question 9

Carte blanche (n)

Answer 9

Origin: French
Def: total freedom (blank slate)

Question 10

Mazel tov (interjection)

Answer 10

Origin: Hebrew/Yiddish
Def: congrats

Question 11

Apropos (adj)

Answer 11

Origin: French
Def: appropriate, fitting requirements or related to

Question 12

Quid pro quo (n)

Answer 12

Origin: Latin
Def: this for that; a favor granted in return for something