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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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