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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--qui vive This week's theme: terms from French. qui vive (kee VEEV) noun Alert, lookout. (Used in the phrase "on the qui vive"). [From French qui vive, literally "(Long) live who?" It was used by a sentry to challenge someone approaching the gate. A proper response might be "Vive le roi!" or "La France!"] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Are there some more subtle signals a man ought to be on the qui vive for?" James Ahearn; Ask Mr. Manners; The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey); Oct 23, 1991. X-Bonus Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. -Theodor Adorno, philosopher and composer (1903-1969)

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