French vocabulary
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| turfiste | le / la/ racegoer
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| exaucer | vt. grant (prière, voeu) qu to grant sb's wish
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| excédant(e) | adj. (énervant) exasperating
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| parier | vt. bet (aux courses)
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| I might have known | je l'aurais parié.
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| dévoiler | vt. to reveal
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| dégourdir | to bring the circulation back to; to warm up
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| se dégourdir | stretch something out (legs)
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| garnir | (de)1) to fit out with
2)to cover
3to fill, stock, 4)to pad 5)to trim, to decorate VT
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| box full of chocolates | boite garnie de chocolats
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| insolite | adj. unusual, out of the ordinary
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| ovationner | vt; to give sb an ovation
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| écourter | vt: to shorten
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| narguer | vt: to scoff at, to scorn, moquer trés fort
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| narquoi/ oise | adj; mocking
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| dresser | vt: to draw up (liste, inventaire)
2) to put up (buffet), set the table, arrange,
3)to raise (tete)
4)to tame, to break in
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| se dresser | vpr: to stand up, sit up straight, to rear up (stand on hind legs)
2) to prick up
3) to stand; to tower (batiment)
4)(=insurger) to rise up (contre, face à against)
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| to stand on tiptoe | se dresser sur la pointe des pieds
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| a tale to make your hair stand on end | une histoire à faire les cheveux sur la tête
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| to prick up its ears | dresser les oreilles
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| concurrent / e) | adj; competing
N: competitor, candidate
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| concurrentiel /(le) | adj: competitive
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| franchir | vt: to get over (obsticle, to cross (river), to go through , to cover, to break through, to overstep
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| le pays vient de franchir un cap important | the country has just passed an important milestone
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| bévue | Une; blunder
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| commettre une bévue | to make a blunder
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| raccourcir | to shorten
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| délai | le: time limit
2) waiting period
3) extension
4) as soon as possible
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| vous ëtes dans les délais | your within the time limit;
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| il va demander un délai pour achever le travail | he's going to ask for more time to finish the job.
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| dans les plus brefs délais dans les meilleurs délais | as soon as possible
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| délai de livraison délai de paiement délai de relexion | delivery time; term of payment; (avant réponse) time to think (cooling off period)
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| amortir | vt: (=diminuer) to absorb (choc, coup, chute) to cushion, to deaden
2) (dette) to pay off
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| amortissement | un: (de dette) paying off; reserve for depreciation ( recoup the cost comme wet suit)
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| amortisseur | un: shock absorber
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| aboutir | vi: to succeed
2) (=arriver) to end up (prison)
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| faire aboutir des négociations | to bring négociations to a successful conclusion
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| aboutissement | un: outcome (results) success
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| divertir se divertir | vt: to amuse
to amuse oneself
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| divertissant (e) | adj: amusing, entertaining
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| divertissement | le: entertainment
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| enlaidir s'enlaidir | vt; to make look ugly, to deface,
vi; to become ugly
to make oneself ugly
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| divulguer | vt: to divulge
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