Feb2023b

Question 1

drame

Answer 1

1. drama
2. tragedy

Question 2

alvéole

Answer 2

honey-combed

Question 3

bourlinguer

Answer 3

naviguer beaucoup, voyager beaucoup

Question 4

le bouge

Answer 4

1. hovel, dump
2. dive, seedy café

Question 5

la hantise

Answer 5

obsessive fear, dread

Question 6

le brevet

Answer 6

1. patent
2. diploma, certificate
3. commission (military)

Question 7

le gibet

Answer 7

gallows

Question 8

buriné

Answer 8

furrowed, deeply lined

Question 9

un visage buriné

Answer 9

a craggy face

Question 10

méfier de

Answer 10

to distrust, to beware of

Question 11

déceler

Answer 11

1. syn: découvrir - to detect, to uncover, to discover
2. syn: révéler - to indicate, to reveal

Question 12

entretenus

Answer 12

kept, maintained

Question 13

mal entretenu

Answer 13

poorly maintained

Question 14

entretien

Answer 14

1. maintenance, upkeep
2. discussion, talk, interview

Question 15

rapetisser

Answer 15

1. to shorten, to make smaller
2. to belittle, to shrink

Question 16

le faubourg

Answer 16

syn: banlieue - suburb

Question 17

le marronnier

Answer 17

chestnut (tree)

Question 18

le tilleul

Answer 18

linden (tree)

Question 19

une épopée

Answer 19

epic

Question 20

un essor

Answer 20

1. flight (of a bird)
2. expansion, growth, development

Question 21

prendre son essor

Answer 21

1. to take flight, to soar
2. to grow, to expand rapidly

Question 22

être en plein essor

Answer 22

to be booming

Question 23

dégénérer

Answer 23

to degenerate

Question 24

engourdi

Answer 24

1. numb
2. dulled, lethargy

Question 25

éblouir

Answer 25

to dazzle, to stun, to amaze

Question 26

cerbère

Answer 26

strict door-keeper, watchdog
Can. : goalkeeper

Question 27

la caveau

Answer 27

1. small cellar
2. burial vault

Question 28

issu (e) de

Answer 28

1. descended from
2. resulting from

Question 29

une issue

Answer 29

1. syn: sortie - exit
2. solution - way out
3. syn: fin - ending, outcome

Question 30

rue sans issue

Answer 30

dead-end street

Question 31

à l’issue de

Answer 31

at the end of

Question 32

l’étincelle

Answer 32

1. spark
2. sparkle, flash

Question 33

s’étioler

Answer 33

1. to wilt, to wither
2. to weaken, to become sickly

Question 34

lier

Answer 34

1. to tie up, to bind
2. syn: relier - to link up, to join up
3. to strike up (a friendship etc)
4. to thicken ( in cooking)

Question 35

se lier / lier avec

Answer 35

to become friends with

Question 36

tenter

Answer 36

1. to tempt
2. syn: essayer - to attempt, to try

Question 37

tenter la chance

Answer 37

to try one’s luck

Question 38

tenter le diable

Answer 38

to tempt fate

Question 39

comestibles

Answer 39

food

Question 40

une cassure

Answer 40

1. break
2. crack, fissure

Question 41

nécropole

Answer 41

cemetery

Question 42

la tribune

Answer 42

1. gallery, grandstand
2. rostrum, platform
3. syn: débat - forum

Question 43

opérer

Answer 43

1. to produce, to bring about
2. to operate on
3. to carry out, to implement

Question 44

hautain

Answer 44

haughty

Question 45

éveillé

Answer 45

1. awake
2. bright, alert

Question 46

la trêve

Answer 46

1. truce
2. respite

Question 47

voguer

Answer 47

to sail, to navigate

Question 48

ballotter

Answer 48

to jolt
syn: secouer, ébranler - to shake, to toss about

Question 49

une esquisse

Answer 49

sketch, outline, summary

Question 50

glauque

Answer 50

1. dull blue-green
2. syn: lugubre - gloomy, dreary

Question 51

riposte

Answer 51

1. syn: réplique - retort
2. syn: contre-attaque - counter attack, reprisal

Question 52

parvenir à

Answer 52

to reach, to arrive at

Question 53

surenchères

Answer 53

1. higher bid
2. exaggeration, overstatement

Question 54

déchet

Answer 54

1. scrap
2. waste, wastage

Question 55

flairer

Answer 55

1. to sniff, to smell
2. to sniff out, to detect

Question 56

débusquer

Answer 56

to flush, to drive out ( from hiding)

Question 57

engourdissement

Answer 57

1. numbness
2. dullness

Question 58

effusion de sang

Answer 58

bloodshed

Question 59

aspérité

Answer 59

1. bump, protrusion
2. harshness, asperity

Question 60

saillir

Answer 60

to jut out

Question 61

désamorcer

Answer 61

to defuse

Question 62

œufs brouillés

Answer 62

scrambled eggs

Question 63

rôder

Answer 63

1. to prowl
2. syn: error- to wander around, to roam about

Question 64

fignoler

Answer 64

to refine, to put the finishing touch upon

Question 65

figuier

Answer 65

fig tree

Question 66

la figue

Answer 66

fig

Question 67

le ciseau

Answer 67

chisel

Question 68

gicler

Answer 68

to spurt, to squirt, to spatter

Question 69

virevolter

Answer 69

to twirl

Question 70

ébrèchements

Answer 70

chips, flaws

Question 71

ébréchure

Answer 71

chip, flaw

Question 72

ébrécher

Answer 72

to chip, to nick

Question 73

panne

Answer 73

breakdown, failure

Question 74

panne d’électricité

Answer 74

power failure, blackout

Question 75

le caoutchouc

Answer 75

rubber

Question 76

un santon

Answer 76

figurine provençale ornant les crèches de Nöel

Question 77

puer

Answer 77

to smell, to stink, to reek of

Question 78

diurne

Answer 78

diurnal, daytime

Question 79

argile

Answer 79

clay

Question 80

maculer

Answer 80

to stain

Question 81

pétrir

Answer 81

to kneed

Question 82

la glaise

Answer 82

clay

Question 83

le glaive

Answer 83

sword
syn: épée

Question 84

méduse

Answer 84

jellyfish