Advanced French Vocab
Complete list of Terms and Definitions for Advanced French Vocab
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| faîte | summit |
| abonnement | subscription |
| rotonde | rotunda |
| raie | line |
| complaisance | kindness |
| éolienne | windmill |
| coulisse | backstage |
| cru | raw |
| laminated | |
| épagneul | spaniel |
| braise | ember |
| déboulonner | unbolt |
| dédier | dedicate |
| caniveau | gutter |
| anodin | insignificant |
| assoupir | snooze |
| cuvette | ditch |
| Fragmented | éclaté |
| décote | tax relief |
| bulletin | report; newsletter |
| dirigeants | rulers, leadership |
| consigne | orders, instructions |
| veille | information monitoring |
| entrain | spirit, pep |
| désabusement | disillusionment; disenchantedness |
| épreuve | test; ordeal |
| ténèbres | darkness; uncertainty |
| fracassé | knocked; broken |
| blocus | blockade; embargo |
| impassible | unblinking; emotionless |
| débité | chopped, cut |
| Une cuve | pit |
| immobilier | real estate |
| émeute | riot, rioting |
| trafiquant | trafficker, dealer |
| un tabiler | apron |
| Worker | Un prolétaire |
| érafler | to scratch |
| barbotine | splashing about |
| paumé | lost, bewildered |
| pansement | dressing, bandage |
| piètre | poor, mediocre |
| s'amenuiser | to dwindle |
| s'adonner | devote to |
| abasourdi | shocked, dizzy |
| brûnatre | somewhat brown |
| brèche | the break |
| effaré | confused, alarmed |
| dingue | crazy, nuts |
| divagation | delusion, rambling |
| To explode | éclater |
| dépourvu de | devoid of |
| trôner | to sit enthroned |
| préjudice | harm, damage (noun) |
| jour chômé | day off |
| une chauve-souris | a bat |
| denrée | provision, foodstuff; commodity |
| Un passé-partout | door opener |
| échauffourée | clash, skirmish (noun) |
| to become disillusioned | déchanter |
| insouciance | lack of concern |
| mouchard | sneak, fink, informer |
| accablant | fatiguing, oppressive, overwhelming |
| to cut across | silloner |
| pour autant | for all that |
| site en ligne | online site |
| voir à | to see to |
| contrat à terme | futures contract |
| propos recueillis par | interview by |
| disgracier | to not be graced |
| les poils | an animals hair |
| loupe | reading glass; magnifying glass |
| Les jeunes gens | young people |
| etre presse(e) | in a hurry |
| désamorcer | to difuse, to drain |
| faune | wildlife, bunch of people |
| barème | price list, fee table |
| For/through want of... | faute de... |
| incontournable | incontrovertible, that cannot be ignored |
| concurrencer | to rival; to compete against |
| énerver | to get on someones nerves |
| à coup sûr | without fail, definitely |
| to nick (steal from fam.) | piquer |
| bribe | a fragment of a conversation |
| to snip / cut down | rogner |
| dire sans détour | to tell sth straight |
| PIB | gross domestic product, GDP (produit intérieur brut) |
| divaguer | to talk nonsense; to be delirious |
| sentencieux | abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims |
| faire face | to confront; to cope with |
| flancher | to give up, to pack up |
| être en butte à | to come up against |
| emmagasiner | to accumulate; to stockpile (also with se) |
| ENA | Grande École for top civil servants (École nationale d'administration) |
| détenir | to hold, to be in possession of |
| s'essouffler | to tail off; to run out of steam |
| SBF 120 | a French stock market index (Société des Bourses Françaises 120 Index) |
| le ou la cadet(te) | the middle child in the family |
| To be at the height of | être â son comble |
| to be undercover to be in a safe place | être à l'abri |
| sortir le grand jeu | to go all out; to pull out all the stops |