French Vocabulary for English Quiz
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- Au courant
- well informed up to date
- blasé
- tired of pleasures; bored
- bourgeois
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having to do with the midlle class
concerned with prett, materialistic interests; lacking in culture or refinement - chic
- stylish
- clairvoyant
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clear-sighted; unusually perceptive; discerning
able to perceive matters beyond the ordinary senses - complaisant
- willing to please; obliging; amiable
- debonair
- gracious; courteous; charming; suave
- gauche
- lacking social grace; crude; tactless; awkward
- maladroit
- unskillful; clumsy
- naive
- without concern or enthusiasm; ingenuous
- nonchalant
- without concern or enthusiam; indifferent
- attaché
- member of the diplomatic staff of an ambassador or minister
- bourgeoisie
- the middle class
- chargé d'affaires
- temporary substitute for an ambassador
- concierge
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doorkeeper; custodian; janitor
hotel employee who handles mail, arranges for theater reservations, etc. - confrere
- colleague; co-worker; comarade
- connoisseur
- expert; critical judge
- coterie
- set or circle of acquaintances; clique
- debutante
- young woman who has just had her debut(intro to society)
- devotee
- zealous follower; ardent adherent of something or someone; fan
- elite
- group of individuals thought to be superior/aristocracy/choice part
- emigre
- refugee/person who has fled from his or her native land bc of political conditions
- entourage
- group of attendants/assistants/associates accompanying a person
- entrepeneur
- one who assumes the risks and management of a business
- envoy
- diplomatic agent or messenger
- fiance
- person engaged to be married
- gendarme
- armed police officer, especially in france and other european countries
- gourmand
- person excessively fond of eating and drinking/glutton
- gourmet
- connoisseur in eating and drinking
- ingenue
- actess playing the role of a naive young woman/ naive young woman
- maitre d'hotel
- headwaiter
- martinet
- person who enforces very strict discipline
- nonpareil
- person of unequalled excellenc/paragon
- nouveaux riches
- persons newly rich
- parvenu
- person suddenly risen to wealth or power who lacks the proper social qualifications/upstart
- protege
- someone taught, protected, or advanced by a person of experience or influence
- raconteur
- person who exels in telling stories, anecdotes...
- valet
- manservant who attendds to the personal needs of his emplower, as by taking care of his clothes
- aplomb
- absolute confidence in oneself, poise, self-possession
- eclat
- brilliancy of achievement
- élan
- enthusiasn, eagerness for action
- ennui
- feeling of weariness and discontent/boredom/tedium
- esprit de corps
- feeling of union and common interest pervading a group/devotion to a group or to its ideals
- finesse
- skill and adroitness in dangling a difficult situation
- legerdemain
- sleight of hand/ artful trick
- malaise
- vague feeling of bodily discomfort or illness
- noblesse oblige
- principle thats persons of high rank or birth are obliged to act nobly
- rapport
- relationship characterized by harmony, conformity, or affirnity
- sangfroid
- coolness of mind in difficult circumstances/composure/equanimity
- savior faire
- knowledge of just what to say or do/tact