WORD OF THE DAY: savoir-faire

savoir-faire
\SAV-wahr-FAIR\
noun
1. knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
Quotes
Son of a clerk and grandson of peasants, Ryszard was keenly aware how much deportment and savoir faire figure in the impression one makes on others, and was not about to relax his standards for himself because he had read (all travelers were in agreement about this) that fine manners counted for little in the New World.
— Susan Sontag, In America, 2000