Puisqu'il le cous de français a recommencé la semaine derniére, j'ai aussi recommencé à lire plus français avec attention.
- Fut: Passé simple (etre)
- Fit: Passé simple (faire)
- Mistouflon: some kind of an imaginary animal; sort of unicorn
- Cracher: eject, vent
- Benoit: blessed, clam, tranquil
- Souliers: shoes
- Pousse: natural growth
- Ange: angel
- s'use: wear away (in the process of being used
- embêtant: causing irritation
- se dire: attribute a quality (il se disait que le monde était beau)
- coups:
- Marquant: That which leaves a trace, could be a souvenir, someone's character, an event
- époque: fixed/determined instant of time
- saisir: grab
- coups: blows
- croche-pieds: tripping others
- internaute: internet user
- faire taire: silence
- promouvoir: promote
- laid: disagreable to the senses
- mépris: contempt
- désapprobation: disapproval
- s'enfoncer (dans): progress deeper
- raideurs: characterized by inflexibility
- noirceurs: (méchant/perfid synon) characterized by no/bad values or untrustworthiness
- digne: worthy
- irréelle: unreal/imaginary
- graver: to engrave
- tranchant: cutting
- détisser: make tissue in previous sense
- effiler: shred a tissue into thread
- fil: thread
- assister: to attend
- foule: crowd
- s'écarter: to (slightly) be disrupted
- guingois: off-track
- écraser: influence/exert
- péniblement: laboriously
- cahin-caha: péniblement (used with a movement)
- élan: movement for launching something
- enjouement: good humour
- folatre: light hearted (slightly stupid)
- badin: displaying gaiety
- grivoiseries: free saying without restraints
- bêtise: missing intelligence (kind of bakwaas) + connerie
- commérages (similar) + without specific interest
- malveillance: malvolence
- roder: gain experience progressively/function in harmony as in parts of a machine
- rôde: prowl/lurk
- griffes: kind of nails for grasping/gripping
- folie: mental problem
- debérassée: freed
- peiner à séduire qqn: struggling to seduce
- reprochent aux
- remanier: rewrite
- primes: premium
- chantiér: construction workers
- se justifier: rationalize
- croisement: crossing
- pour autant: for what (it's worth)
- fuir: flee/avoid/retreat/recede
- s'emparer: take hold of sthng (new idea etc)
- hors-serie: not part of a series
- faillites: default on payments
- défiance: kind of defiance basically
- recenser: to take account of something
- numéro: ordinality
- gaspillage: inefficiencies/wastage
- se vouloir: to give for/stand for something
- cotisation: taxation/obligation to pay for or contribute towards a public good
- piquer: provoke lightly/prick
- noyer: submerged/drown
- flot: flood
- lame: spread (light)
- serrer: tighten
- rétorque: retort (one's own reason)<->railler
- liés au pays: related to country
- vertu: virtue
- parcours: determined distance/path to be taken/agreed upon as in right of way
- trier: sieve/to separate what to be kept from what is not to be kept
- eschaper: escape
- emettre: emit
- cible: goal (one is supposed to reach)...mouche
- tir: firing
- durer: endure/exist
- au sein de: within
- faits divers: diverse facts
- banlieues: suburbs/surroundings
- reprendre: grasp something back after leaving it such as work
- le gore: horrible stuff
- pointer les manques: highlight shortcomings
- accaperer: hoard/appropriate stuff (food/things valued by others etc), monopolise
- éloigner: distance (noun)
- étendre: extend, s'étendre: se deployer
- étaler: spread
- répandre: spill/diffuse
- maudit: cursed
- lointain: distant
- indument: undeservedly
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