Classical Terms Flashcards by Miñoza Miñoza

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Je ne sais quoi

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Indescribable quality

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Ipso facto

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Because of the fact

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Quid pro quo

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This for that

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Schadenfreude

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Pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune

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Deus ex machina

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Ghost from the machine

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Carpe Diem(Horace)

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Pluck the day

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De Brevitate Vitae

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About the brevity of life

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Memento mori

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Remember you are mortal

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C’est la vie

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That’s life

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Ars gratia artis

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Art for art’s sake

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Non-sequitur

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It does not follow

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Persona non grata

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An unwelcome person

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A priori

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Knowledge before experience

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A posteriori

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Knowledge after experience

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Est quod est

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Be what you are

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In toto

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In total

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Nihilo ex nihilo

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Nothing from nothing

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Sapere aude

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Dare to know

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Avant garde

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Advance guard or leading guard

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Tete-a-Tete

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Head to head

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De rigueur

A

It’s fashionable

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Mens rea

A

Mental state

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Argumentum ad hominem

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Attack the man

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Argumentum ad infinitum

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Argue same thing constantly (or constant)

Argument in ad naseum

Argue same thing but an outcome comes out

Amor fati

Love your fate

Ante-bellum

Before the war

Bibo ergo sum

I drink therefore I am

Bona fide

Proof of authenticity

Casus belli

Cause for war

Caveat emptor

Buyer beware

Deo volente

God willing

Vini, Vidi, Vici

I came, I saw, I conquered

Ne plus ultra

There is nothing more beyond