It was the Word of the Day yesterday at Merriam-Webster, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun bon vivant. It means “a sociable person who has cultivated and refined tastes especially with respect to food and drink.”
I’d given myself a semi-firm promise that I wouldn’t indiscriminately prepare these documents every time a flashy word came over the transom–or in this case the Merriam-Webster app on my phone. But I cannot resist Gallicisms, so here you are. Besides, I think educated people use bon vivant on the right occasion. So shouldn’t our students be able to work with this useful and euphonious noun?
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