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anagnorisis, noun, realisation; the unraveling or denouement of a plot |
Original Language: Greek, ana, gnoreizen, to recognize |
aporia, noun, in rhetoric, at a loss at where to begin speaking |
Original Language: Greek, literally, doubt |
apotheosis, noun, deification or glorification |
Original Language: Greek |
coterie, noun, an intimate/exclusive group, often with a unifying purpose |
Original Language: French, organization of peasants holding land from a feudal lord |
demimonde, noun, a group engaged in doubtful legality or propriety |
Original Language: French |
eidolon, noun, image, phantom, apparition |
Original Language: Greek, idol |
faute de mieux, idiom, for want of something better |
Original Language: French |
fl•neur, noun, one who idly saunters without destination or aim |
Original Language: French, a lounger or loiterer |
gauche, adj., left-handed; hence, awkward, without social grace |
Original Language: French |
hoyden, a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, carefree style |
Original Language: Middle Dutch, a heathen or country lout |
louche, adj., not reputable or decent |
Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, p.2, "In Victorian London, even in a place as louche and notoriously crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh..." |
Original Language: French, cross-eyed |
m•ue, noun, a pouting grimace |
Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, page 45 |
Original Language: French |
parvenu, noun, one recently risen to wealth or power, but lacking the dignity associated with it, like the nouveau riche |
Original Language: Latin |
picayune, a coin of small value; anything trivial and worthless |
Original Language: (Creole), from French, picallion, a farthing |
purlieu, noun, a haunt, bounds, limits, environs |
Original Language: French |
raconteur, noun, someone who can tell stories well |
Original Language: French |
rapprochement, noun, establishing, or esp. restoring of harmony and friendly relations |
Original Language: French |
repartee, noun, a quick witty reply; skill in making such replies |
Original Language: French |
sussurrus, noun, a whispering or rustling sound |
Note: adjectival = sussurous or sussurant |
Original Language: Latin, a hum, whisper |
vergangenheitsbew•ltigung, noun, coming to terms with the past |
Original Language: German, specifically referring to the nation's movement during the 1960s |
weltanschaung, noun, worldview |
Original Language: German |
zeitgeist, noun, the spirit of the age/time |
Original Language: German |
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