VOCABULARY
r abat-jour (m.): shade.
r abnégation (f.): self-de-
nial, sacrifice, s' abriter: to shelter, take
refuge.
r accablement (m.): weari-
ness.
accabler: to overwhelm.
s' accouder: to lean upon
something with the el-
bows.
r accueil (m.): réception,
welcome.
r acquéreur (m) : pur-
chaser.
r acte de location (m):
deed for hiring, rent-
ing, leasing.
adjuger: to sell by process
of tribunal of justice.
r affiche (f.): poster, placard.
affreux (-se) : frightful,
horrible, s' agenouiller: to fall on
one's knees.
r agrafe (f.): hook, clasp.
ailleurs: elsewhere.
d* ailleurs: besides.
r aise (f.): ease. Être à
son — : to be rich.
r allée (f.) : walk, path.
anéanti: prostrated, brok-
en down.
r approvisionnement (m.):
supply.
s' appuyer: to lean, rest
against.
r arrêt: decree, sentence, r ascendant (m.): ascend-
ency, mastery.
d' assaut (m.): assault.
Prendre — : to take by
storm.
s' assoupir: to fall into a light sleep.
attendri (-e) : moved,
touched.
aucunement: by no means,
not at ail.
au delà: beyond.
au-devant: in front of.
Aller — de: to go to meet.
r aumône (f.): alms, char-
ity.
r aumônier (m.): chaplain accompanying the army.
r autel (m.) : altar.
r avis (m.): advice, council, opinion.
avoir: to bave. — tort: to be wrong. — beau: to be in vain, even though.
Il y a: there is, there are, ago.
r avoué (m.): attorney.
avouer: to confess, admit.
bah! nonsense!
la baignoire: box in the
theater. le bail: lease.
balbutier: to stammer.
le banco: one who holds the
bank (at cards).
la banquette: the front seat
in a carriage.
le battant. Porte à deux — :
folding door.
la besogne: work.
la blessure: wound, hurt.
bleuté: bluish.
se blottir: conceal oneself, to crouch.
bouger: to budge, move.
bouleverser: to upset, confuse.
le bourgeois: commoner, between higher and lower class.
le bout: end. Au — du
compte: after ail.
le boute-selle. Sonner le — :
signal for saddling horses.
braquer: to turn, point an object.
le bréviaire: prayer book used by catholic priests.
la brochure: pamphlet.
broncher: to stir, flinch. le brouillard: fog, mist.
le bruit: noise, rumor, talk.
brunir: to brown, darken.
bioisquement: suddenly, abruptly.
le buffet: sideboard.
cacher: to hide, conceal.
le caisson: ammunition
wagon.
câlin (-e) : fondling,
wheedling.
calomnier: to slander.
le cantique: sacred song.
le carossier: carriage maker.
la carrière: career.
le cartel: clock on the wall.
causer: to cause; to chat, le cercueil: coffin.
le chantre: singer in a
church.
les chasseurs d'Afrique: light
cavalry (French) in
Northern Africa.
la châtelaine: mistress of a
château, la chaumière: hut.
le chevet: bedside.
la chicorée: kind of salad.
le chirurgien: surgeon.
le chœur: choir. Enfant
de — : choir boy.
choyer: to fondle, pet.
la cime: summit, highest point. cingler: to lash.
claire-voie. Porte à — :
lattice work gâte.
clouer: to nail, confine.
au coin de la cheminée: by
the fire place, la comptabilité: action of keeping accounts.
compte (au bout du) : after ail.
la confrérie: brotherhood.
Company, le congé: leave of absence, le contretemps: disappointment.
convenir: to agrée, le corps: body. Faire — : to make an organic whole.
le coude: elbow.
le couloir: hall, passage le cours d'eau: small
stream.
la crânerie: dash, swagger-
ing.
la créance: debt.
la crête: top, crest.
criard: loud, showy.
le croquis: sketch.
cueillir: to pick, gather.
la cure: parish, duties of a parish priest.
dame! well! indeed!
la débâcle: downfall, ruin. se débattre: to struggle, fight.
débordant: overflowing.
décider: to décide. Se — :
to make up one's mind.
le défaut: defect, fault.
défiler: to march past (of troops).
se dégager: to free oneself.
déjeuner: breakfast.
la démarche: step, gait, bearing.
le déménagement: moving from one place to another.
démentir: to give the lie,
deny.
démesuré: out of measure, extravagant.
les dépendances (f.): appurtenances, belongings.
dépenser: to spend.
dépité: vexed, annoyed.
se dérober: to avoid, shun.
désœuvré: idle, unem-
ployed.
désorienté (être) : to lose ones way, présence of mind.
dessiner: to sketch, draw.
déterrer: to unearth, discover.
se détirer: to stretch. le détour: winding, turning.
devoir: to owe, must, ought, to hâve to, to be to.
dissipé: dissipated, squandering away.
le divan: sofa, se douter: to suspect, le dressoir: dresser, side^
board.
la droiture: honesty, uprightness.
éblouir: to dazzle.
ébranler: to shake. S' — :
to move off.
s' écarter: to go out of the way, to lose one's way.
r échelle (f.) : ladder.
r éclat (m.): brilliancy, noise, glory.
éclater: to break out,
burst; to shine.
écossais (-e) : Scotch, Scotchman.
s* écouler: to pass by, elapse.
r écurie (f.) : stable, s' effacer: to keep oneself in the background.
effaré: terrified.
r effroi (f.): fear, fright.
r égard (m.): respect, regard, s' éloigner: to remove to a
distance, s' embrouiller: to become confused.
emmener: to lead or take away. s' emparer: to take possession.
empêtré: embarrassed.
s' emporter: to get angry.
empressé: eager.
s' empresser: to hasten.
ému (émouvoir) : moved, affected.
r enchère (f.) : bid.
encombrer: to fill, en-
cumber.
endormi: asleep.
endurci: hardened.
s' enfuir: to flee, run away.
s' engourdir: to become sleepy, benumbed.
enjoué: lively, playful.
r ennui (m.): weariness,
tedium.
s' enrhumer: to catch cold.
entamer: to begin, r enterrement: burial.
entraîner: to drag, draw.
r entretien (m.): keeping up, maintenance; conversation, chat.
envahir: invade.
r envie (f.) : désire, wish.
épanoui: beaming, blooming.
s* épanouir: to expand, to blossom.
éperdu: bewildered.
r éperon (m.): spur.
éplucher: to pluck.
r épouvante (f.): terror, fright.
épuisé: exhausted.
s' esquiver: to slip away.
étaler: to display, spread
out.
étinceler: to sparkle.
V étole (f.) : stole.
étouffer: to choke, suffocate.
r étui (m.): small case.
s' évanouir: to vanish, faint.
évaporé: giddy.
r évêque (m.): bishop.
la faculté: faculty, power.
la faïence: earth-ware.
faillir: to corne near, be on the point of . . .
la fanfare: brass instruments of music, blast, flourish.
fat: fop, foppish.
fêlé: cracked.
le filleul: god son.
fléchir: to bend, persuade, ma foi! upon my fate!
la folie. Faire des — : to be wild, extravagant.
fondre: to melt. — en larmes: weep copiously.
la foudre: thunderstroke.
le fouillis: mass, cluster.
la foule: the crowd.
fourrager: to rummage.
la franchise: frankness, candor.
frissonner: to shiver.
la futaie: fores t.
le galon: lace, braid.
gâter: to spoil.
la gêne: discomfort, em-
barrassment.
le gigot: leg of mutton.
glisser: to slip, slide.
le gré: will, pleasure.
la grêle: bail.
le grelot: small bell.
la grille: grating, grate.
la griserie: intoxication.
gronder: to scold.
guère. Ne. . . — : scarcely.
guetter: to watch.
guilleret (-te) : gay, lively.
la haie: bedge.
le hameau: bamlet.
le hangar: sbed.
la hardiesse: boldness, fear-
lessness.
r hôtel (m.): mansion. r huissier (m.): bailiff,
court officer, door
keeper.
inavouable: shameful,
disgraceful.
indécis (-e) : undecided.
r indicateur (m.): railroad guide.
inépuisable: inexhaustible.
s' installer: to establisb
oneself.
les instances (f.): entreaties.
intrépidement: boldly,
fearlessly.
inutile: unnecessary, useless.
le jardinet: small garden.
la joue: cheek.
la jument: mare
jusque: until, even. — là:
up to that time.
le képi: soldier's cap.
lancé: started in society,
introduced.
lancer: to burl, dart,
throw.
la larme: tear.
las (-se) : tired, wearied.
la lectrice: reader. (m.: le lecteur) .
léger (-ère) : light, frivo-
lous.
lestement: quickly,
briskly.
levantine: from the Levant, Near East.
la lieue: league (3 miles), le lingot: ingot, lump, se livrer: to abandon one-
self, give up.
la loge: box in the theater,
opéra, à loisir: leisurely.
longer: to follow along.
lorgner: to look at thru an opéra glass.
la lorgnette: opéra glass.
le louis d'or (after Louis XIII): old French gold coin, worth 20 francs.
la lutte: struggle, contest,
fight.
le luxe: splendor, luxury.
majeur: of âge.
le malaise: discomfort. uneasiness.
manier: to handle.
la manœuvre: drill, parade
(military).
le maréchal des logis: sergeant in the cavalry.
marron: maroon, chest-
nut color.
mendier: to beg.
mener: to lead, conduct.
le mensonge: falsehood, lie.
le mépris: contempt, scorn.
le métier: trade, business,
occupation.
les meubles (m.): furniture.
mince: thin, slender,
small.
mineur: not of âge, minor.
le mobilier: furniture.
le mobilisé: soldier drafted
into military service, à moitié: half.
la monnaie blanche: silver
coin, se monter la tête: to get
over-excited.
le morcellement: cutting, di-
viding into pièces, la moue: pouting.
la mule: slipper.
naïf (f. naïve) : simple, artless, innocent.
naître: to be born.
né: (p.p. of naître), born.
nombreux (-se) : nu mérous.
nouveau (nouvelle) : new, différent, le noyer: walnut wood.
nu: bare, naked.
r œil (pi. yeux) eye.
r œuf (m.) : egg.
V oraison (f.): prayer.
r oratoire (m.): chapel.
oser: to dare.
en outre: besides, in addition.
outré: extrême, r ouvrier (m.): workman,
ouvrir (p.p. ouvert): to open.
la paille: straw.
palisser: to prop, fence, nail up the branches, le panégyrique: praise, lau-
dation.
le paquebot: packet boat,
steamer, le parapluie: umbrella.
pareil (-le) : like, such.
parmi: among.
la paroislenne: female par-
ishioner.
le parrain: god father.
partager: share, divide.
le parvenu: upstart, newly
rich.
la patte: the foot of an animal, paw.
le peignoir: dressing gown.
la peine: trouble, grief, dif-
ficulty.
à peine: scarcely, hardly.
la pelletée: shovelful.
se pencher: to lean, bend.
péniblement: painfully.
le perron: the porch steps.
le pilier: pillar, column.
la plaine: plain, the open.
à plusieurs reprises: repeatedly, several times.
pluvieux (-se) : rainy.
le pope: high Russian church dignitary.
poudreux (-se) : dusty.
le pré: meadow.
prélever: to levy previ-
ously, deduct.
prendre congé: to take leave.
le presbytère: parsonage,
priest's house.
le prétendant: suit or.
prêter: to lend, loan.
prévenir: to inform,
warn.
provisoire: provisory,
temporary.
puis: then, afterwards.
le quai: platform at R. R.
station, wharf, steamer
landing.
le quartier: the barracks.
quelconque: whatever,
whatsoever.
radieux (-se) : bright, radiant, happy.
la rafale: gust of wind, squall.
raide: steep, stiff.
ramener: to bring back.
le rapide: fast train.
rappeler: to recall. Se — :
to remember.
le rapport: income, revenue.
rapporter. S'en — à: to
leave it to.
ratisser: to rake.
ravissant: charming, de-
lightful.
recueilli: pensive,
thoughtful.
recueillir: to gather,
collect, receive.
reculer: to retreat, re-
coil.
redoutable: formidable.
redouter: to fear.
se redresser: to straighten up oneself.
réduit: reduced.
relever: to raise again.
Se — : to rise again.
la rente: income, annuity.
répandre: to spread, diffuse, scatter.
en répondre: to assure, give
one's word for it.
se résoudre: to résolve, décide, en retraite: retired on pay.
le rez-de-chaussée: ground
floor.
la ride: wrinkle.
rigueur (à la) : at a pinch, strictly speaking.
la romaine: sort of lettuce.
rongé: eaten up, gnawed.
le rouleau: roll (of money).
le roulement: rolling.
S le sabot: wooden shoe.
le sabre: sword, saber.
Saint-Cyr: military school near Paris, se sauver: to escape, run away.
secourable: kind, helpful.
selon: according to.
la serre: greenhouse.
serrer: to put away.
Être — : to be pressed, close togetber.
le seuil: tbresbold.
le siège: seat, coach box.
sommeiller: to doze,
slumber.
songeur (-se) : thoughtful, pensive, dreamy.
le sort: fate, lot. Tirer au — : to draw lots, sot (-te) : stupid, silly.
soucieux (-se) : anxious,
full of care.
souhaiter: to wish.
le soupçon: suspicion.
subir: to undergo, bear.
supplier: to beg, entreat.
le surplus: surplice, vestment worn by priest, choir boys, en sursaut: with a star t.
surveiller: to inspect, superintend, watch over.
tâcher: to try, endeavor.
tandis que: while.
tapageur (-se) : loud, gaudy, sbowy.
le tapissier: upholsterer.
tel (-le) : such, such a.
le tilleul: linden tree.
se tirer d'affaire: to get
along, corne out O. K.
tort: wrong. Avoir — : to
be wrong.
tourbillonner: to whirl,
turn, dance.
tout battant neuf: brand
new.
transiger: to compromise, transact.
se tromper: to be mistaken.
le trou: hole, small village.
Turenne: marsball of France (1611-1675).
le tuteur: guardian (in
law).
le tuyau: pipe.
uniquement: only, solely.
le vacarme: tumult, uproar.
vaillant: firm, steady,
brisk. vaincu (inf. vaincre) :
conquered, vanquished.
se vanter: to boast.
la veille: the day before,
eve.
au vert. Se mettre : to
rest in the country
(fig. on the green
grass).
le vicaire: assistant priest.
le vœu: wish, vow.
la voie: path, road, way.
le volant: flounce of a dress.
le volet: shutter.
en vouloir à: to be angry,
vexed at.
la voûte: vault, arch, ceil-
ing.
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