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Unit #3 of the weekly foreign words series for senior English. These words are a collection of foreign words that are used in our English language today. I am using the word list from "The Literature Teachers Book of Lists".
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Foreign Word List #3Test on Friday, September 20!
Live-in nannyAu pair (Fr)
Leading edge of a historical movement New/unusual or experimental ideas,
esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them.
Avant-garde (Fr)
Scarf that goes over the head
Babushka (Rus)
Baby Nickname for Babe Ruth (not on test)
Bambino (Ital)
Latin/Hispanic neighborhoodBarrio (Sp)
1. A gracious gesture. 2. A gesture noble in form
but meaningless in substance.
“My fellow writers supported me by writing letters of protest to the publisher, but their beau geste could not prevent the inevitable.”
Beau geste (Fr)
Beautiful people Fashionable elite
Beau monde (Fr)
Pet peeve A person or thing
strongly detested or avoided
Bête noir (Fr)
Doing my own tax return is the bête noire that haunts me every April.
Take it or leave it attitude Unconcerned; nonchalant
Blasé (Fr)
He had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.
A swift intensive military attack, using tanks supported by aircraft, designed to defeat the opposition quickly
German : Blitz, lightning
Blitzkrieg (Ger)
Answer:
The Germans used Blitzkrieg in World War II to capture Austria and Czechoslovakia and later Poland, by taking these countries by surprise and in a very quick manner.
My grandmother insisted on going to open house with my parents this year. She usually babysits for my family on that night, so we had to pay the _________ from next door to come over that night to watch my little sisters.
My parents drove over to my grandma’s house. She was waiting on the front steps wearing a _________. That is my ________- it’s so annoying when she wears that! I tried to act ________ so she wouldn’t know I was annoyed.
Open House
au pair
babushka bete noir
blasé
When we walked into the school and passed the trophy case, my dad commented that the popular jocks were considered the __________ back in his day.
The first teacher we met with was my English teacher. All he could talk about was ___________ literature and how it was so great!
Then we went to my history class. The teacher in there was discussing how our class would be studying World War II and the __________ strategy of the German Army. When we would study recent history, the teacher would be covering what life is like in other cultures, including a virtual tour of a _________ in California.
beau monde
avant-garde
blitzkrieg
barrio
When we got home that night, the au pair decided not to charge my parents for her work, saying that the __________ of my family was so well behaved.
My parents thanked her for her _____________.
bambino
beau geste
