Foreign Words Flashcards
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Ad hoc
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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
The way nobility must behave
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Nolo contendere
No contest
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Nom de plume
Pen name
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Non sequitur
Doesn't follow logically
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Per se
By or in itself
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Persona non grata
Someone disliked
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Prima facie
At first look
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Pro forma
Done as a formality
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Quid pro quo
An exchange
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Raison d'être
Reason for being
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Rara avis
Rare example
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Sangfroid
Cool under pressure
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Schadenfreude
Satisfaction from another's misery
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Sine qua non
Very important
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Sui generis
Unique
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Tete-a-tete
A private conversation
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Verboten
Forbidden
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Vis-a-vis
In relation to
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Weltschmerz
Sadness because of the world's evils
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Zeitgeist
Popular opinion of the time
