foreign words 71-80

Foreign Words 71-80Group #8Test on Friday, NOV. 13

1. ESPRIT DE CORPS (FR) Spirit of the troops Morale, loyalty to the group

Es-spree de core

His leadership kept the team's esprit de corps intact during difficult periods.

2. EX CATHEDRA (LAT) “From the chair” an official announcement from the Pope or church authority

3. EX POST FACTO (LAT) Retroactive law

An ex post facto law is a law that is enacted to make an act illegal after it has been done.

4. FAIT ACCOMPLI (FR) Something that's already done. 

If your dad warns you not to play an April Fool's Day trick on your sister, but you've already put a giant inflatable Godzilla in the shower, that's a fait accompli.

5. FATWA (ARABIC) Religious order given by a Muslim cleric

Sometimes this is a call to take action against a person or nation. It is not always deadly.

6. FAUX PAS (LAT) an embarrassing social blunder or statement

SAY: Foe - paw

She made the faux pas of referring to Wales as “ part of England.”

7. FEMME FATALE (LAT) Dangerous, seductive woman

8. FILM NOIR (FR) Filmed in black and white (emphasis on red within the film)

Used for artistic meaning (not old movies!)

World War II and post-war disillusionment and Realism.

FILM NOIR EXPLANATION CLICK HERE

MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is adesired object in the movie.

9. FIN DE SIÈCLE (FR) End of the century mindset

Cultural attitudes of the 1880s and 1890s: boredom, cynicism, and pessimism.The Scream (1893), an expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, is a prominent art symbol of the fin de siècle era.

Romantic poets - such as Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth - were fascinated by the apocalypse around an earlier fin de siècle.

Fan de see-eck-la

10. GARÇON (FR)

To call a waiter “Boy!”

SAY: Gar – son rhymes with “on”

AN UNLIKELY HALLOWEEN STORY This last Halloween reminds me of my favorite

Halloween as a child. The day started out as any other Halloween complete with the thoughts of costumes and candy. I was so excited to go trick-or-treating. That afternoon, a huge snowstorm hit our area blanketing my town in two feet of snow. Trick-or-treating was cancelled. That really lowered the ____________. It was so bad that the Pope spoke ____________ and cancelled Halloween! ___________ an unlikely event happened.

All of my mom’s co-workers brought their candy into work and gave it to my mom for my siblings and I to enjoy since we couldn’t go out the night before. My mom graciously accepted the candy not once committing a _____________.

Esprit de corpsEx cathedra

Ex post facto

Faux pas

That night, my mom came home and decided to take us out for dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, we waited 45 minutes for our food. My dad kept yelling, “_________!” He couldn’t seem to get the waiter’s attention.

When we got home, we decided to spend the rest of the night watching a ____________. It was about a beautiful _____________ set during the ___________. We gorged ourselves on candy!

Garcon

Fin de siècle Femme fatale

Film noir