Set: Le Lion: Les Trois Cent Mots
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All 129 Terms
| | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
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un Masaï | ??African tribe, like to hunt lions illegally, highly respected warrior tribeetc... ok someone help me with this one |
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jaillir | to gush out |
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le perron | the front steps |
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en volutes | in curls, scrolls, volutes |
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rêche | rough |
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parée | prepared |
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les paillettes (f) | the sparkles, spangles, sequins (g) |
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jacasser | to chatter, gossip |
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un duvet | a duvet, down blanket |
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tamisé | softened, filtered |
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prendre en écharpe | ?? something to do with a scarf? (Brian: to hit sideways on (to hit someone from the side. and écharpe also means sling)) |
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un abreuvoir | a watering place |
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un épineux | a thorny bush |
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ciller | to blink |
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piétiner | to trample |
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éventrer | to disembowel, slash open |
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vouloir de | want of |
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soupçonneux | distrustful, suspicious |
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chétive | puny |
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cerné | surrounded |
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tendre (la main) | to tighten (to reach out, extend one's hand) |
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la trêve | the truce |
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une aigrette | an egret |
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le truchement | the medium, interpreter |
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ébauché | designed |
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les savanes (g) | the savannas (f) |
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farouche | wild, fierce |
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tourner à vide | ? to become empty ? ("Comment dit-on "tourner a vide" en anglais, quand il s'agit d'un vehicule dans la neige dont les roues tournent a vide? Merci! I believe that it would be: to spin your wheels. This is also an idiom to convey that one cannot make progress not matter what they try to do, they just can't go anywhere." "to go nowhere fast",) |
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effilé | sharpened |
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les pommettes (f) | the cheekbones (g) |
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surplomber | to overhang |
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maladif (ive) | unhealthy (fem ending) |
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le mufle | the muzzle |
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pilé | ground up, crushed |
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ménager | to treat with care (as a verb); domestic (adj) |
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un casque | a helmet |
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se rabattre | to shut |
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un lambeau | a rag |
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craquelé | cracked |
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infléchir | to soften |
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carnassier | carnivorous |
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un sillon | a groove |
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les bourrelets (m) | ? the bulges, padding (g) ? (spare tire, as in of fat. ) |
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le bouclier | the shield |
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une lance | a spear |
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les pâturages (m) | the pastures (g) |
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l'aine (f) | the groin (g) |
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empesé | starched |
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maussade | moody |
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une jardinière | a female gardener |
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fautif | faulty, offending |
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un guet | a lookout |
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un napperon | a mat |
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s'embourber | to get stuck in the mud |
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une roulotte | a trailer |
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la crinière | the mane |
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le tintamarre | the ringing, buzzing, hubbub, uproar |
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bosselé | dented, lumpy |
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le rictus | ?the gape of the mouth of a bird (the rictus), or a grin, grimace ?? |
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des animaux de bât | the pack-saddle animals |
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grêle | ?pitted, pockmarked (la grêle = hail.. not sure of context. Brian: grêlé = pockmarked, grêle = skinny, slender, shrill (voice))? |
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les bestioles (g) | the animals, bugs (f) |
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malsain | unhealthy |
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un frisson | a shiver |
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un tintement de clochettes | a clink of bells |
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lardé de | covered with lard |
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à portée de | within reach |
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un dompteur | a tamer |
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le flot (de la crinière) | ? the stream (of the mane) ? |
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le babine | the chop |
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une effusion | an effusion |
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le menu | the menu |
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le biberon | the nursing bottle |
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entraîner | to lead to, to train, to entail |
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répandre | to spread |
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une tonnelle | a bower, arbor, dwelling |
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une enceinte | a surrounding wall |
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épréché | chipped |
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une senteur | a fragrance, scent |
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la bouse de vache | the cowpat |
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puiser | to scoop out |
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(il) s'égouttait | drained |
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s'agglutiner | to stick together |
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le coutelas | the large knife |
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la manyatta | (perhaps a ceremonial arrangement of 40 huts in the Masai tribe, either as a living arrangement, or for a ritual) |
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le dénuement | the destitution |
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renifler | to sniff |
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un ululement | a ululation (yodeling) |
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s'ébranler | to move off |
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retroussé | curled up, rolled up |
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rugir | to roar, bellow |
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les atours | the finery |
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un glaive | a blade, a double-edged sword |
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verroferie | (verroterie = the glass jewellery) |
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le délire | the frenzy |
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funeste | calamitous, disastrous, grievous |
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brandir | to throw out |
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les napperons brodés (g) | the embroidered mats (m) |
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un évanouissement | a fading |
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le sentier | the track |
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inépuisable | bottomless |
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se cabrer | to rear |
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un barrissement | the cry of an elephant |
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un râle | a squawk, rattling |
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la vase | the sludge, silt |
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inassouvi | insatiable, unappeased |
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recousu | sewn up |
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rétréchir | to shrink |
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foncer sur | to charge, rush at |
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l'appel primordial | the primoridal call, primary appeal |
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lever le tabou | to raise taboo |
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avide | greedy |
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une peau abjecte | an abject/miserable skin |
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la patte tutélaire | ????? |
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un affaisement | a sinking |
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s'affaiser | to sink, give way to |
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la gueule béant | the gaping mouth |
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exaucer | to grant |
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se rencogner | ???to drive or push into a corner??? |
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un filet de suie | ?? a net of soot ?? (a dash of soot, line of soot? filet de suie is a term used in the french language used in relation to chimneys and soot) |
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les masures (g) | the hovels, shacks (f) |
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bucolique | bucolic, pastoral (pertaining to shepherds) |
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se chevaucher | to overlap |
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engourdi | numbed |
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se dissoudre | to dissolve |
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nimbé | haloed |
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les arceaux (g) | ? the hoops (m) ?, (the arches) |
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les flamboyants | (well, "flamboyant(e,s)" the adjective means: blazing, but i didn't find it as a noun in my dictionary) |
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être à l'affût | to lie in wait |
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Here are the 127 words that Mme did not define in the packet. Please make comments and edits. Also, I'm not sure all my definitions are context-specific. And as far as studying for the quiz, someone should make a set of the other 170 words that are already defined.
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Jenkins : farouche is better defined in context as wild, or fierce
Jenkins : I think that pommette refers more to the "apple" of one's cheek hence the "pomme"
Jenkins : craquele = crackled not cracked
Jenkins : Wait halfway through the list I can no longer figure out what scenes the words are from. I think she is testing us on vocab we have yet to read and that is tres, tres lame.
Jenkins : Changed les pommettes (g) → the cheekbones (f) to les pommettes (f) → the cheekbones (g)
Jenkins : Changed les pâturages (g) → the pastures (m) to les pâturages (m) → the pastures (g)
Jenkins : Changed les paillettes (g) → the sparkles, spangles, sequins (f) to les paillettes (f) → the sparkles, spangles, sequins (g)
Jenkins : Changed l'aine (g) → the groin (f) to l'aine (f) → the groin (g)
Jenkins : Changed s'agglutiner → to crown together to s'agglutiner → to stick together
btaller8 : are you missing any, cause i think i counted 129 total. i'll check, maybe i was wrong
btaller8 : hmm, are these words she gave us in chronological order?
btaller8 : cause if not, she really can't expect us to locate them in context
btaller8 : add: "les flamboyants" before "maladif"
btaller8 : its at the end of the list, cause i can't insert in its correct spot
btaller8 : s'enbournber = s'enbourber
btaller8 : corrected "le dénument" to "le dénuement"
btaller8 : hmmm, well, i added 1 word, but you also split one of your definitions (#115) into two: 115."un affaisement", 116. "s'affaiser"
btaller8 : so i guess my count was just off
btaller8 : added "etre a l'affut" = to lie in wait
btaller8 : i put several of the "Benoit definitions" in parenthesis, so they can be ignored during a quizlet "learn mode"
btaller8 : new def for "grele"
btaller8 : ppl, please check all of these previously undefined words if you can
allison : for Masai you could just say Masai... its the tribe you described, but in english it's just 'Masai'... my definitions are all pretty much the same as yours, just different words to describe the same things
allison : brian's right about the scarf one-- i got "to hit broadside"
allison : chetive can also be 'sickly', but 'puny' works too so i wont change it.... its so good that you made this list cuz we'll actually all be able to agree on one definition for each word-- good plan!! <3
allison : un barrissement --> the cry of an elephant
Last Message: 7 months ago
Most Missed Words
- une tonnelle → a bower, arbor, dwelling - 3 misses
- fautif → faulty, offending - 2 misses
- une senteur → a fragrance, scent - 2 misses
- les napperons brodés (g) → the embroidered mats (m) - 2 misses
- un Masaï → ??African tribe, like to hunt lions illegally, highly respected warrior tribeetc... ok someone help me with this one - 1 miss
- parée → prepared - 1 miss
- prendre en écharpe → ?? something to do with a scarf? (Brian: to hit sideways on (to hit someone from the side. and écharpe also means sling)) - 1 miss