Vocab List 3

Question 1

Tête a tête

Answer 1

(n, French) -a private conversation between two people

Question 2

Mensch

Answer 2

(n. Yiddish) -a person of integrity and honor

Question 3

Sine qua non

Answer 3

(n. Latin) -something absolutely indispensable or essential (without which, not)

Question 4

Verboten

Answer 4

(adj. German) -not permitted or allowed, forbidden

Question 5

Ad hoc

Answer 5

(adj/adv. Latin) -for the particular end or case without wider application, formed for specific and immediate problems or needs

Question 6

Je ne sais quoi

Answer 6

(n. French) -an appealing quality that cannot be adequately described or expressed

Question 7

Aficionado

Answer 7

(n. Spanish) -a devotee, an expert in an interest or activity

Question 8

Crème de la crème

Answer 8

(n. French) -the very best, “cream of the cream”

Question 9

Flagrante delicto

Answer 9

(adv. Latin) -in the act of committing a misdeed

Question 10

De riguer

Answer 10

(adj. French) -prescribed by fashion etiquette or custom, “required”

Question 11

Zeitgeist

Answer 11

(n. German) -the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Question 12

Coup de grâce

Answer 12

(n. French) -something (as in an argument or a blow) that is decisive or overwhelming