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si longue lettre 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| endiguer | hold back, check, curb |
| enlisant | getting bogged down |
| des denrées | foodstuffs |
| le dépouillement | counting |
| de grand standing | luxury |
| un ébéniste | cabinet maker |
| un versement | payment |
| les coudées | elbows |
| rapace | rapacious, grasping |
| la veulerie | without energy or will |
| égarer | mislead, lead astray |
| démêlé | untangled, sorted out |
| mainmise | seizure |
| liguer | unite, be in league with |
| la tare | defect, flaw |
| ankyloser | stiffen |
| un nourrisson | infant |
| un calvaire | suffering, martyrdom |
| un manchot | one armed, handed |
| le reniement | renunciation, disowning |
| matinal | morning |
| touffu | bushy, dense, thick |
| certes | certainly, admittedly, indeed |
| auréoler | to glorify |
| dégarnir | to empty, clear |
| une coiffe | a headdress |
| le dandinement | waddle |
| l'engourdissement | numbness, sleepiness, drowsiness |
| arc-bouté | pressing up against, buttressed |
| la parade | spectacle, showy actions |
| taxer de | accuse someone |
| écervelé | scatterbrained |
| un point d'appui | pivot, fulcrum |
| un chapelet | prayer beads |
| un pagne | cloth |
| caillouteux | stony, pebbly |
| enfouir | bury, hide |
| l'éblouissement | glare |
| pimenté | spiced |
| jacassant | chattering |
| un parcours | way, road |
| féconde | make pregnant, fertilize |
| empoigner | seize, grasp |
| déséquilibrer (des-ay-qui-lee-bray) | throw off |
| bouleverser | upset, shake up |
| crispé | drawn |
| larmoyant | weeping, tearful |
| s'étirer | to stretch |
| velu | hairy |
| dégarni | stripped, laid bare |
| ténu | thin, tenuous |
| un van | offering basket |
| égrener | to pick (at) |
| l'enfantement | childbirth |
| ténébreux | dark, gloomy |
| grouillant | swarming, crawling |
| s'affairer | bustle about |
| calé | wedged, stabilized |
| ployer | bend, bow, submit |
| hétéroclite | mixed, varied |
| occasionel | occasional |
| conjurer | exorcise |
| un sort | fate, destiny |
| à tue-tête | at the top of one's lungs |
| courroucé | angered, incensed |
| syndical | having to do with a union |
| une natte | straw mat |
| bleuir | make, turn blue |
| ficelé | tied up |
| un potin | gossip, scandal |
| un boubou | long white robe |
| le mil | millet |
| une couche | layer |
| d'autrui | of others |
| citadin | urban |
| une liasse | bundle, file, wad |
| écoeurant | sickening |
| un carreau | square, tile |
| un bilan | balance sheet |
| marmonner | mutter, mumble |
| une croupe | buttocks |
| un soutien-gorge | bra |
| une charge | load, burden |
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