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Foreign Words and Phrases - Week 3 2018-2019

Foreign Words and Phrases - Week 3 2018-2019. à la carte. Means: as separately priced items from a menu, not as part of a set meal.

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Foreign Words and Phrases - Week 3 2018-2019

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  1. Foreign Words and Phrases - Week 3 2018-2019

  2. à la carte Means: as separately priced items from a menu, not as part of a set meal. Sometimes in restaurants, a complete dinner is considered to be one price, eg. entree, vegetables, and a drink. Other times, each dish is priced individually, or a la carte.

  3. et cetera Means: used at the end of a list to indicate that further, similar items are included. Usually expressed as etc.

  4. bon appétit Means: good appetite used as a salutation to a person about to eat.

  5. aficionado Means: a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.

  6. bona fide Means: genuine; real. Bona fide means "in good faith" in Latin. When applied to business deals and the like, it stresses the absence of fraud or deception.

  7. carpe diem Means: used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. This Latin phrase, which literally means "pluck the day," was used by the Roman poetHorace to express the idea that we should enjoy life while we can. the day."

  8. chutzpah Means: shameless audacity; impudence. The word is sometimes interpreted—particularly in business parlance—as meaning the amount of courage, mettle or ardor that an individual has.

  9. coup de grâce Means: an action or event that serves as the culmination of a bad or deteriorating situation. Borrowed directly from French and first appearing in English at the end of the 17th century, "coup de grâce" (literally, a "stroke of grace" or "blow of mercy") originally referred to a mercy killing, or the act of putting to death a person or animal who was severely injured and unlikely to recover.

  10. cul-de-sac Means: a street or passage closed at one end. French, literally, bottom of the bag

  11. doppelgänger Means: an apparition or double of a living person.. According to age-old German folklore, all living creatures have a spirit double who is invisible but identical to the living individual. These second selves are perceived as being distinct from ghosts (which appear only after death), and sometimes they are described as the spiritual opposite or negative of their human counterparts. In 1796,

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