Volume 6 Flashcards
amorcer
to bait, prime, initiate
encruster
to encrust, inlay
rétrécisser
un rétrécissement (n)
to narrow
a narrowing
enjoué (adj)
playful
pantois (adj)
flabbergasted
sidéré (adj)
flabbergasted, dumbstruck
un bredouillement
a mumble, splutter
morne (adj)
drab, doleful, gloomy
l’éblouissement (m)
dazzle, splendor
le dénégation
denial
ébranler
to rattle, shake up
les honoraires (mp)
fee
exaucer
exaucé (adj)
to bestow, grant, fulfill
fulfilled
engueuler
s’engueuler
to berate loudly
to have a row
une menotte
a manacle
à brûle-pourpoint
point-blank
une accoutumance
a habit, custom, addiction
débloquer
to unblock
une ride
a wrinkle, furrow (on the face)
la grosseur
thickness, size
classer
classé (adj)
to file, classify
indexed
chicoter
un chicot
to stump
a stump
bousiller
to ruin
déborder
to boil over, overfill
dilapider
to squander
un actif
an asset
la succession
succession, inheritance
combiner
to combine
le combiné
handset, receiver
la combiné (slang)
monkey business
franchir
go through, overcome
la paperasse
papers, forms
un filtre
a filter
la police
policy (insurance)
bedonnant (adj)
potbellied
hypothéquer
to mortgage
repairer
to go to ground, go under cover
un repaire
a den, lair, hideout
élimé (adj)
shabby, threadbare
l’aléas
riskiness
inattendu (adj)
unexpected
inachevé (adj)
incomplete
une courbure
curvature
louche (adj)
shady, disreputable
râler
grumble, moan
acquis (adj)
acquired
guère
barely, hardly
embellir
to embellish, beautify
une atteinte
l’atteinte
from atteindre
an attack the reach (of something)
to attain, reach
châtain (adj masc.)
Il est châtain
brown, chestnut (for hair)
He has brown hair.
une raie
a parting, a streak (as in one’s hair)
un complet
a suit
sobre
sober
un quart de travail
shift
un bail
les baux
C’est un bail qu’on ne s’est pas vu!
a lease
leases
It’s been ages since we’ve seen each other!
le préposé
employee, official, postman, attendant, appointee
théoriquement
theoretically
l’empressement (m)
willingness
clore
to close, complete
turlupiner (colloq)
to bother, to bug (as in irritate)
acharner
s’acharner
to hound, pursue, track down
to persevere
cadrer
to center
to tally, jibe
dévier
to deviate, veer, deflect
asséner
to thump, to deal (as a blow)
un agacement
an irritation
sidérer
to astonish, to stagger (vt)
un aveu
les aveux
confession
confessions
indispensable (adj)
essential
sécréter
to secrete
tracasser
to worry, bother
exposer
to put on display, to make known
supputer
to calculate
divaguer
to ramble, to rave
le chantage
blackmail
batifoler
to flirt
emboîter
to fit together
un mastodonte
mastodon
slang: very big or important person
endimancher
endimanché
to put on one’s Sunday best
dressed in one’s Sunday best
rugeux (adj)
rough, raspy, rugged
une échéance
due date, expiry date
citer
to quote
une dépouille
dépouiller
dépouillé (adj)
remains, relic
to skin, strip, deprive
bare, denuded
fatalement
inevitably
vengeur (adj)
vengeful
vengeur (m and f)
avenger
parfaire
to perfect
propice (adj)
favourable
octroyer à quelqu’un
to grant to someone
to bestow on someone
la revanche
retaliation, revenge
égarer
to mislead
les dépens (m, p)
expense
une fougonnette
a delivery van
opacifier
to make obscure, opaque
la manchette
faire les manchettes
overcuff (clothing)
headlines (of newspaper)
make the headlines
une greffe
les cliniques de greffe
a graft (biology) adoption?
adoption agency?
piétiner
to trample on to stamp (as one's foot)
viser
to aim
to intend
rentable (adj)
profitable
le tier monde
Third World
