Advanced French Vocabulary
Terms
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copy deck
- to mount, to get on
- enfourcher
- to splash
- eclabousser
- to smudge
- maculer
- bag (under eyes)
- le cerne
- to yell, to bawl
- brailler
- to tousle, to ruffle
- ébouriffer
- to strike, to devestate
- foudroyer
- spine (anat.), spare rib
- une échine
- to yawn, to gape
- baîller
- guts, innards
- les tripes
- as far as I know...
- pour autant que je sache.....
- without necessarily....
- sans pour autant.....
- garbageman
- un éboueur
- hushed, muffled
- feutré
- booming
- tonitruant
- kettle
- la bouilloire
- to detect, to reveal, to indicate
- déceler
- acrobatics
- la haute voltige
- to chap, to crack
- fendiller
- gust (of wind)
- la bourrasque
- prominent, bulging
- saillant
- to think over, to brood, to brood on
- ruminer
- shabby
- miteux
- to guffaw
- esclaffer
- plump, chubby
- replet/replète
- to collapse, to crumble
- crouler
- to begin, to prime
- amorcer
- motto, currency
- la devise
- to whislte away to oneself
- siffloter
- narrow-minded
- borné
- to whither, to fade, to shrivel
- se flétrir
- chess board (literal, figurative)
- un échiquier
- bankrupt
- failli
- eye lid
- la paupière
- absent-minded, unthinking
- étourdi
- distress, confusion
- le désarroi
- spirit, liveliness
- un entrain
- recklace, rash
- téméraire
- twig
- la brindille
- to take aback, to throw (a rider)
- desarçoner