This document contains foreign words and their definitions. It discusses a childhood Halloween memory where a large snowstorm cancelled trick-or-treating plans, but candy was still enjoyed. The Pope spoke ex cathedra and cancelled Halloween in an unlikely turn of events. At a restaurant, the father kept yelling "garcon" to try to get the waiter's attention. They later watched a film noir movie about a femme fatale set in the fin de siècle era while eating candy.

1. Foreign Words 71-80
Group #8
Test on
Friday,
NOV. 13

2. Spirit of the troops
Morale, loyalty to the group
Es-spree de core
His leadership kept the team's esprit
de corps intact during difficult periods.

3. “From the chair” an official
announcement from the Pope or
church authority

4. Retroactive law
An ex post
facto law is a
law that is
enacted to
make an act
illegal after it
has been done.

5. Something that's already done.
If your dad warns you
not to play an April
Fool's Day trick on your
sister, but you've already
put a giant inflatable
Godzilla in the shower,
that's a fait accompli.

6. Religious order given by a Muslim
cleric
Sometimes this is a call
to take action against a
person or nation. It is
not always deadly.

7. an embarrassing social
blunder or statement
SAY: Foe - paw
She made the
faux pas of
referring to
Wales as “part
of England.”

8.  Dangerous, seductive woman

9. Filmed in black and white (emphasis
on red within the film)
Used for artistic meaning (not old
movies!)
World War II and post-
war disillusionment and
Realism.
FILM NOIR EXPLANATION CLICK HERE
MacGuffin (sometimes
McGuffin or maguffin) is a
desired object in the movie.

10. End of the century mindset
Cultural attitudes of
the 1880s and 1890s:
boredom, cynicism, and
pessimism.
The Scream (1893), an
expressionist painting by Edvard
Munch, is a prominent art symbol
of the fin de siècle era.
Romantic poets - such as Blake, Coleridge, and
Wordsworth - were fascinated by the apocalypse
around an earlier fin de siècle.
Fan de see-eck-la

11.  To call a waiter
 “Boy!”
SAY: Gar – son rhymes with “on”

12.  This last Halloween reminds me of my favorite
Halloween as a child. The day started out as any
other Halloween complete with the thoughts of
costumes and candy. I was so excited to go
trick-or-treating. That afternoon, a huge
snowstorm hit our area blanketing my town in
two feet of snow. Trick-or-treating was
cancelled. That really lowered the
____________. It was so bad that the Pope
spoke ____________ and cancelled Halloween!
___________ an unlikely event happened.
 All of my mom’s co-workers brought their candy
into work and gave it to my mom for my siblings
and I to enjoy since we couldn’t go out the night
before. My mom graciously accepted the candy
not once committing a _____________.
Esprit de corps
Ex cathedra
Ex post facto
Faux pas

13.  That night, my mom came home and decided
to take us out for dinner. When we arrived
at the restaurant, we waited 45 minutes for
our food. My dad kept yelling, “_________!”
He couldn’t seem to get the waiter’s
attention.
 When we got home, we decided to spend the
rest of the night watching a ____________.
It was about a beautiful _____________ set
during the ___________. We gorged
ourselves on candy!
Garcon
Fin de siècle
Femme fatale
Film noir