ubermensch - a superman

ujamaa - a village community in Tanzania

ultima Thule - a distant unknown region

untermensch - a racially inferior person in Nazi terms

vendeuse – a saleswoman, especially in a fashionable dress-shop

ventre a terre - at full speed

verboten - forbidden, especially by an authority

verkrampte - conservative or reactionary as regards South African apartheid

verligte – progressive and enlightened as rebgards South African apartheid

vers libre - irregular or unrhymed verse

via media – a compromise

victor ludorum - a sports champion

vide - (as an instruction in a reference to a passage in a book etc.) see, consult.

vieux jeu – old-fashioned, hackneyed

vingt-et-un – the card-game pontoon

vin ordinaire - cheap (unusually red) French wine.

vin rose - light pink wine

vis-a-vis - in relation to, compared with

viva - (cried as a salute etc.) long live

volkerwanderung - a migration of peoples, especially that of Germanic and Slavic peoples into Europe from the second to the eleventh centuries

volte-face - a complete reversal of position

vox populi - public opinion

wehrmacht- the German armed forces, especially the army, from 1921 to 1945

weltanshauung - a particular philosophy or view of life; a conception of the worl

 

zollverein - a customs union, especially of German Stales in the nineteenth cent