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FREN Sem 2 - Text

TermDefinition
une flaque a puddle
se soulager to relieve oneself
tout comme just like
Palais de Matignon French Prime Minister's residence
batard mongrel
croisé cross/hybrid (of an animal)
la SPA Société Protectrice des Animaux
une refuge rescue (centre, for animals)
prendre en photo to take a picture (of)
photographier to photograph (something/someone)
se tenir garde à vous to stand on guard
sur les marches de on the steps/stairs (of)
une fuite a leak
une patte paw/leg of an animal
petite commission pipi/number one
grande commission caca/number 2
se vider la vessie empty your bladder
une cheminée a fireplace
doré(e) gilded/golden
luxueux luxurious
sumptueux sumptuous
impuissant helpless/powerless
À l'instar de following the example of
estival(e) summery
solennellement solemnly
souhaiter la bienvenue à to greet
aux fastes splendour, prosperous
conseiller aide
être de corvée to get stuck with an unpleasant task
propriétaire owner
le dégât damage
mordiller to nibble, chew
les bords the edges, borders
milieux d'euros thousands of euros
restaurer to restore
déménager to move (house)
insolite bizarre, unusual
qui sort d'ordinaire out of the ordinary
experimenté (dans) experienced (in)
clownesque clownish
maladroit clumsy
négligé scruffy
admirateur admirer
en lice in the running
money hungry avide d'argent
commentateur commentator
politicologue political commentator
trempé bedraggled
s'en prendre sur have a go at
tant soit peu ever so slightly
OVNI (objet volant non-identifié UFO (unidentified flying object
froissé upset, offended
snober to snub, to give the cold shoulder
prédisposer to predispose
narcissique narcissistic
malentendu (m) misunderstanding
un quiproquo mistake, misunderstanding
rôder to prowl, hang around
(avoir du) vague à l'âme melancholy to have the blues
ce n'est pas une mince affaire it's no mean feat; it's no easy task
décrocher (d'un discours) to switch off, to zone out (from a speech)
décrocher (le téléphone) to pick up the phone
décrocher (un job) (familier) to land a job
rêvasser to daydream
le mal du pays homesickness
un énième the Nth/umpteenth
s'enfermer dans sa bulle to retreat into yourself, to retreat into your own little world
un pépin a mishap, glitch, hiccup
un accroc/un anicroche a hitch, a snag
démarrer sur les chapeaux de roue to shoot off; to get off to a flying start
en trombe at full throttle
séduction charm
faire un tabac to be a hit
le summum the pinnacle, the peak
le comble de the height of
être le comble, être un comble that takes the cake! you couldn't make that up!
la loufoquerie eccentricity
la tignasse shock of hair, mop of hair
avoir les cheveux en pétard to have scruffy hair
être en pétard contre to be furious with
ébourrifié disordered hair; messy, tangled
malfagoté to be dressed in an unkempt way, in a manner that doesn't suit someone
être débraillé to be unkempt
un plaisantin a joker
les élections municipales local elections
adjoint(e) deputy, second-in-command
gaffeur (adj) blundering, clumsy
être friand de to be partial to
casser du sucre sur le dos de qqn to talk about someone behind their back
chevronné seasoned, experienced
l'emmerdeuse/x pain in the neck
être un pipelette to be a chatterbox
translucide translucent
être le concierge to be a gossip
verbeux wordy
être futé to be crafty, cunning, sly
pédaler dans la choucroute to flounder, to get nowhere
une fadaise a piffle (informal)
un malfrat a crook, a criminal
un rébus a rebus (game to figure out a word)
un casse-tête a brain-teaser
le cancer du sein breast cancer
sur-médiatisé over-publicised
être en ébullition to be boiling to be in overdrive
la tige the stalk (of a plant)
déceler to detect, to discern
un gourou a guru
les remous (m) flurry, turmoil
une confrérie a fellowship, a brotherhood
ébranlé(e) shaken, rattled, unnerved
l'étalage display
ressasser to keep bringing up
turlupiner to nag at, to bother
le poignet wrist
antinomique (adj) contradictory
antithétique (adj) antithetical, in direct opposition to
l'empressement the readiness
le diktat diktat, imposition, orders
jeter aux oubliettes consigned to the scrap heap
s'incruster dans une fête to crash a party
se trouver sur la sellette, être sur la sellette to be the one with your head on the chopping block
mettre {qqn/qqch] au placard to sideline, to freeze out
une entrave a hindrance, a constraint
un bibelot a knick-knack, a trinket
un napperon a place-mat, a doily
bibeloter to go bric-a-brac hunting
être d'un calme olympien to be completely composed, cool as a cucumber
un halètement a gasp, pant
faire la moue to pout
un noeud pap(illon) a bow tie
un reniflement a sniff
renifler to sniff
péter un câble to lose it
twenty-something personne de la vingtaine
la gaudriole philandering
Affamé hungry/starving
avoir la vie dur To die hard
qui pue smelly
nom de jeune fille maiden name
nom d’époux spouse’s name
l’état conjugal marital status
de classe ouvrière working class
La haute société upper class
À faible revenu low income
serrurier locksmith
parodies Send-up
Quiconque whoever
La première dame first lady
Quelques notions smattering of
Le président sortant incumbent president
Être étourdi shocked
première partie de soirée prime time
Created by: jelenam
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