| Term | Definition |
|---|
| wanton | needy, vampid |
| wrought | worked, fancy |
| xenophile | a lover of people outside of your own country |
| xenophobe | a person who is afraid of those not from their country |
| virulent | everywhere, .. blah |
| avoir un cafard | to be nervous |
| avoir des lettres | to be well read |
| avoir le coeur sur la main | to wear your heart on your sleeve |
| avoir un poil sur la main | to be lazy |
| avoir l'air d'une poule qui a trouvé un couteau | to be freaked out |
| littoral | of or about the edge of a body of water |
| manse | the residence and land occupied by a pastor or preacher |
| ludicrous | absurd, silly, ridiculous |
| lugubrious | sad, malancholy |
| malaise | an illness either physical or mental |
| appeler un chat un chat | call a spade a spade |
| apocalypse | the end destruction of something |
| apostate | a person who has given up their membership in a group or religion |
| oblique | neither perpendicular or parallel; not straight or direct |
| pas de deux | any event where two people work together to acheive a task |
| Je vais me casser la tete! | That drives me nuts! |
| Il mange souvent ses mots. | He mumbles often. |
| Elle vole de ses propres ailes. | She stands on her own two feet! |
| chercher la petite bete | to nit-pik |
| faire un queue de poisson | to cut line |
| faire la sourde oreille | to turn a deaf ear to something |
| industrious | hard working |
| inevitable | will happen without fail |
| inhibitory | something that keeps you from doing something else |
| incognito | in a disguise, not wanting to be recognized |
| incorrigible | naughty, unable to be disciplined |
| courir les deux lievre a la fois | try to do too many things at once |
| oh la vache | holy cow! |
| casser la baraque | to tear down something someone has worked hard to build up; steal their thunder |
| faire un cheque en bois | to write a bad check |
| ostentatious | wild, outlandish, wanting to be seen or looked at to impress s.o. |
| prevaricate | to lie |
| repudiate | to reject |
| soporific | sleepy |
| disparage | to speak ill of |
| disconcert | to make someone ill at ease by acting out of the ordinary |
| mettre les batons dans les roues de qqun | to throw someone off their game |
| casser les pieds de qqun | to bore someone stiff |
| abscond | to take something either knowingly or without being aware of it |
| pelagic | of or about the oceans |
| pique | to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride: to excite |
| etre branché | to be in the know of current trends |
| etre allumé | to be crazy! |
| conjecture | a guess or a theory |
| erudite | someone who is highly intelligent and/or very educated |
| deviate | to go off the standard path |
| exonerate | to make it as though something never happenned, prove that someone is not guilty of the crimes they are charged with |
| extricate | to remove s.o. or s.t. from s.w. |
| coincer la bulle | to hit the hay; to take a nap |
| Il brule les etapes. | He's burning it up! [going very fast] |
| Chien qui aboie ne mord pas. | A barking dog never bites. |
| Aux innocents les mains pleins. | The meek shal inherit the Earth. |
| precocious | very inquisitive [as in a child] |
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