Vocabulaire TOEFL iBT Flashcards
Taut
Tendu
A stool
Un tabouret
To overcome
Surmonter
Intrude upon
Empiéter sur
An inference
Une déduction
To be long overdue in + ing
Être en retard dans …
A smallholding
a small piece of land used for farming but is much smaller than a typical farm
Outskirts
La banlieue
To break away
Se détacher, se séparer
your nearest and dearest
Sa famille
kith and kin
People you are connected with, especially by family relationships
kittenish
used to describe a woman who behaves in a humorous, silly way, especially as a way of attracting sexual attention
Catty-corner
in a position that is diagonally opposite someone or something else
Agin
Contre
Aghast
atterré, choqué (horreur)
Agape
Bouche bée
To tarry
to stay somewhere for longer than expected and delay leaving
To be seething with
Être rempli de, être bouillonnant de
Rear (B2)
Arrière, derrière
To dart
to look quickly at someone / to move quickly or suddenly (surgir, bondir)
To linger
to take a long time to leave or disappear (C2)
Astonishment
very great surprise
To swagger
to walk as though very pleased with oneself - se pavaner
To plummet
(of a heavy weight) to fall or drop swiftly - chuter
Spry
Vif
seething
very crowded / very angry
Aloof
(Adv) A l’écart de - ex: I kept aloof from the whole business.
(Adj) ºdistant, not sociable or friendly - ex: People find the new teacher rather aloof
ºnot interested or involved, usually because you do not approve of what is happening
Pot
any one of many kinds of deep container used in cooking, for holding food, liquids etc or for growing plants (B2)
To anchor
Ancrer (bateau) (C2) / ancrer (to make something or someone stay in one position by fastening him, her, or it firmly) (C2)
A anchor
Une ancre (C2)/ (personne) un pilier (C2)
Shallow
Peu profond (B2)/ (personne) superficiel (C2)
Soil
Sol, terre (B2)
Profusely
En abondance
To pertain to something
to relate to or have a connection with something
To distinguish X from Y sth
Distinguer X qqch de Y qqch
to run off
imprimer, tirer des impressions / s’enfuir, partir
a runoff
a second or final election held when no one got enough votes to win an earlier election / une finale / ruissèlement d’eau
a crop (B1)
harvest, une récolte
to be devoid of sth
to lack or be without something that is necessary or usual, être dépourvu de
livestock
bétail
to graze
(peau) érafler, écorcher / effleurer, frôler / (animaux) brouter
gullible
naïf, niais
To nab
(informel)
° piquer
° attraper un criminel
Bemused
perplexe
a chicken and egg situation
a situation in which it is impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other one
at sea (idiom)
confus, perdu
all of a doodah (idiom)
confus
muzziness
° the quality of being confused and unable to think clearly because of tiredness, illness, alcohol, or drugs
° not clearly explained
to scavenge
fouiller les poubelles
rubbish
° nonsense
° ordures, déchets
to rattle
° to upset and worry - ébranler
° cliqueter
burly
(personne) robuste, baraquée
puzzled (B2)
perplexe
to coil
enrouler
bleary
(eyes) red, watery or tired
whacked
informel
° très fatigué
° (US) suffering the effects of drugs or alcohol
° (UK) bizarre, inhabituel
stonkered
(UK slang) très fatigué
be fit/ready to drop
être très fatigué
to be at your worst
showing the most unpleasant side of someone’s character
to have shot your bolt
to have already achieved all that you have the power, ability, or strength to do and to be unable to do more
punch-drunk
quand t’as été frappé trop de fois à la tête et qu’il t’en reste des dommages
drowsiness
a tired state, between sleeping and being awake - somnolence
haggard
(of a person) looking very tired and thin-faced, because of pain, worry etc - exténué, défait
gassed
° (UK) very excited
° (US) very tired
° (US) very drunk
omnivorous
° omnivore
° très intéressé
agog
excited and eager to know or see more
A score
°partition
° but (sport)
° groupe de 20
a parlor
a business that provides a stated type of personal service or sells a stated product
to trigger
Provoquer, causer / (inf) causer de la peur, choc chez quelqu’un, en particulier parce que ça leur rappelle une mauvaise expérience
Provoquer, causer / (inf) causer de la peur, choc chez quelqu’un, en particulier parce que ça leur rappelle une mauvaise expérience
to make a successful or unsuccessful attempt to do something
To quiver
Trembler
A smokescreen
A smokescreen
To get the gist of it
Comprendre l’idée globale
Mist
Brume
Ablaze
En feu / éblouissant
Tawny
(usually of animals’ fur etc) yellowish-brown
“Surreptitiously
( /sʌrəpˈtɪʃəsli/)”
Secrètement
Coyness
behavior in which someone intentionally tries to keep something secret /in which someone is or pretends to be shy, or like a child
To shroud
to hide something by covering or surrounding it
A hem
un ourlet
To hum and haw
to be uncertain and take a long time deciding something
A ditherer
someone who finds it difficult to make decisions
To dilly-dally
Traîner, perdre du temps
The rim (of sth)
Le bord (de quelquechose)
To hover
Se tenir aux côtés de / hésiter
Murky
Trouble (≠ transparent)
damp
humide
To purse one’s lips
Se pincer les lèvres
lackluster
mou
To screech
Pousser un cri strident, crisser
To lurch
tanguer, vaciller
To yank
tirer d’un coup sec
a trickle of
un filet de
to dread
appréhender, redouter
a dread
terreur, effroi
to loom
Être imminent / menacer / (+ up) apparaître indistinctement
the shore
le rivage, la côte, la rive
to swarm
(Large groupe) affluer
a din
un vacarme
hubbub
brouhaha
polluting
polluant
to work remotely
télétravailler
lockdown
confinement
to be on strike
être en grève
to strike
faire grève
to bode (ill or well) for
Augurer, annoncer, prédire, présager (du bien ou du mal de…)
a cupboard
un placard
To be on short-time working
Être en chômage partiel
Border closure
Fermeture de frontières
Consumption
Consommation
Widespread
largement répandu
To keep tabs on sb / sth
Surveiller quelquechose / quelqu’un
To holler
crier
to forward
transférer (email)
forward (adj)
Effronté / à long terme / vers l’avant
forward (adv)
Vers l’avant / à partir de (ex: from … forward)
any minute
d’un instant à l’autre
Minute (adj)
Minuscule
Minutes
Procès verbal
A Jiffy
Un moment, un instant (ex : to be home in a jiffy)
