Monday 5 August 2013

FOREIGN WORD AND PHRASES

Chef d'oeuvre - Masterpiece(Mona Lisa is  vinci's chef-d oeuvre)

Circa - About ('circa 1930')

Confoere - Colleague

Contretemps - An unexpected or untowards event;ahitch

Corrigenda - A list of errors (in a book)

Coup d' etat - Violent change in government

Coup de grace - A finishing stroke (the coup de grace of the russian revolution was total annihilation of the czar family)

Cul-de-sac - A blind alley (the failure of the policy  of non-alignment in 1962 saw our foreign reach a cul-de-sac)

Deback - complete tout (debacle of opposition in the election)

Defacto - Actual or actually (de facto recognition to a state)




Prepared By : Jatinder Budhiraja ( 9810513909 )
www.acmeentranceexpert.com

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