| A | B |
|---|
| RSVP | Please respond |
| Deja vu | The experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously |
| Faux pas | Social blunder |
| Du jour | made for a particular day |
| bon voyage | have a nice trip |
| alma mater | the school, college, or university that one attended |
| cum laude | with praise |
| femme fatale | an alluring and seductive woman whose charms enslaves her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire |
| esprit de corps | group spirit; sense of pride, honor |
| verbatim | exact reproduction of a sentence, phrase, quote, or other sequence of text |
| E pluribus unum | out of many, one |
| prima donna | first lady |
| avant-garde | a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm of status quo, primarily in the cultural realm |
| status quo | the present, existing state of affairs |
| joie de vivre | term used to express a cheerful enjoyment of life |
| carte blanche | unrestricted power to act one's own discretion |
| caveat emptor | axiom or principle in commerce that the buyer alone is responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase before buying |
| alpha and omega | beginning and end |
| tabula rasa | clean slate theory--thesis that human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content--their entire resource of knowledge is built up gradually from their experience and sensory perceptions |
| hoi polloi | the masses, group of people |
| ad nauseum | used to describe something that has been continuing to the point of nausea |
| tempus fugit | time flies |
| c'est la vie | That's life |
| bona fide | Made in good faith without fraud or deceit |
| savoir faire | literally "know how to do"; to respond appropriately in any situation |
| non sequitur | it does not follow; not a logical argument |
| id est | that is--to say |
| enfant terrible | a child who is terrifyingly candid by saying embarrassing things to adults, especially parents |
| terra firma | solid earth |
| vox populi | literally means the voice of the people |
