List 4
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Rebecca_Johnson on October 4, 2010
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French | English |
|---|---|
 carte blanch | freedom to use one's own power; full decision making power |
| debacle | complete failure; collapse; overthrow; defeat |
| faux pas | mistake or blunder in conduct, manners, speech, ect |
| impasse | deadlock; dilemma offering no escape; impassable road |
| mélange | mixture; medley; hodgepodge |
| avant-garde | innovators; experimentalists in any art |
| denoument | solution of the plot in a play, story, or complex situation; outcome; end |
| genre | category; kind; type |
| laissez-faire | absence of government interference or regulation |
| premiere | first performance |
| vignette | small, graceful literary sketch; short verbal sketch; short story |
| a la carte | dish by dish; with a stated price for each dish |
| cuisine | style of cooking or preparing food |
| hors d'oeuvres | light food served as an appetizer before the regular courses of a meal |
| ambience | surrounding atmosphere; environment |
| etiquette | conduct and manners of polite society |
| facade | face/front of a building or anything; fake personality |
| passé | old-fashioned; behind the times |
| queue | line of persons waiting for their turn |
| rendezvous | meeting place fixed by prior agreement; appointment to meet at a fixed time and place |
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