Advanced 150-200

Question 1

Fawn

Answer 1

To give someone a lot of attention and praise in order to get that person’s approval (OR little deer)

“Big movie stars are fawned over by the waiters at the restaurant.”

Question 2

Fecund

Answer 2

able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc.:
“fecund soil”
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producing or creating a lot of new things, ideas, etc.:
“a fecund imagination”

Question 3

Felicitous

Answer 3

Admirably appropriate, very well-suited for the occasion; pleasant, fortunate, marked by happiness

“handled the delicate matter in a most felicitous manner”

Solicitious (attentionné) so felicitious (well appropriate, ;usic)

Question 4

Fervid

Answer 4

Fervid can be used to describe something that is physically hot such as “a fervid day in August,” but it is more often used to describe heated emotions like anger, love, or desire.

“a fervid crusader
fervid fans”

Question 5

Fetid

Answer 5

Stinking; having an offensive smell

“fetid air/breath”

pense chacal

Question 6

Fledgling

Answer 6

a young bird that has grown feathers and is learning to fly, débutant

Question 7

Florid

Answer 7

Something that’s elaborate and full of extra flourishes is florid, whether it’s your relatives’ ornate decorating style
OR the way they talk, using a lot of unnecessarily long, complicated words.

with too much decoration or detail

“a florid architectural style
florid prose/rhetoric”

Florida, only flowers

Question 8

Flout

Answer 8

to intentionally not obey a rule, law, or custom:

“Many motorcyclists flout the law by not wearing helmets.
The orchestra decided to flout convention/tradition, and wear their everyday clothes for the concert.”

Question 9

Fluke

Answer 9

something good that has happened that is the result of chance instead of skill or planning:
an unexpected stroke of good luck

“The first goal was just a fluke.”

jouer flute, arrive par chance

Question 10

Forage

Answer 10

to go from place to place searching for things that you can eat or use:

“The children had been living on the streets, foraging for scraps.”

Question 11

Ford

Answer 11

Place where a river or similar body of water is shallow enough to walk or ride a vehicle across (noun); to cross at such a place (verb)

Voiture ford

Question 12

Forestall

Answer 12

Devancer, to prevent something from happening by acting first:

OR keep from happening or arising; make impossible
Meaning stop it from happening. “To forestall the effects of aging, exercise and take care of your health all your life”

“The company executives forestalled criticism by inviting union leaders to meet.”

stall = caller. For = fin caller

Question 13

Fortuitous

Answer 13

Fortuit(e), not planned, happening by chance:

The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.

Question 14

Fracas

Answer 14

Noisy querel

“He was injured in a Saturday-night fracas outside a disco.
The prime minister has joined the fracas over the proposed changes.”

Question 15

Fractious

Answer 15

Hargneux, easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining.

Fraction about factions, don’t nanage so fractious

Question 16

Frenetic

Answer 16

Involving a lot of excited movement or activity:

“After weeks of frenetic activity, the job was finally finished.
There was frenetic trading on the Stock Exchange yesterday.”

Question 17

Fulminate

Answer 17

to criticize strongly OR cause to explode violently and with loud noise (bomb)

“I had to listen to Michael fulminating against the government.”

Volcan

Question 18

Furtive

Answer 18

Done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed. Often dishonnestly

“I saw him cast a furtive glance at the woman at the table to his right.
He made one or two furtive phone calls.
There was something furtive about his behaviour and I immediately felt suspicious.”

Question 19

Gambol

Answer 19

Gambader,to run and jump in a happy way. FROLIC

“Lambs were gambolling in the spring sunshine.”

Gamble but never lose

Question 20

Garner

Answer 20

Recueillir, to collect something, usually after much work or with difficulty:

“Coppola garnered several Oscar awards for “The Godfather”.”

Receuillir des nez a la gare de FFM

Question 21

Gestation

Answer 21

Pregnancy; the period from conception until birth of an animal or (metaphorically) of an idea or plan

“The period of gestation of rats is 21 days.”

Question 22

Glower

Answer 22

Regard noir, to look very angry, annoyed, or threatening

“There’s no point glowering at me like that - you know the rules.”

Opposite glow, kim glow

Question 23

Goad

Answer 23

A goad is a pointy stick
To goad is to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them, to stimulate (=SPUR), encourage

Toad with a goad

Question 24

Gouge

Answer 24

to make a hole in something in a rough or violent way:
“He drove into some railings and gouged a hole in the back of his car.”

OR Arnaquer

Rouge–gouge, accident porsche melissa so gouge

Question 25

Graft

Answer 25

Greffer (organe, agriculture) OR Pot de vin

“The whole government was riddled with graft, bribery, and corruption.
He has had a skin graft on his badly burned arm.”

Grafiti (mario sunshine) vette organe pdt pot de vin

Question 26

Grandiloquent

Answer 26

A grandiloquent style or way of using language is complicated in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important:

“Her speech was full of grandiloquent language, but it contained no new ideas.”

Grand

Question 27

Lofty

Answer 27

high

Loft melissa

Question 28

Grandstand

Answer 28

Perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause OR tribune (stade)

“Experience a unique day in the role of a professional ice-hockey player - not in the grandstand, but on the ice! “

Grand standing, poing noir jo

Question 29

Grating

Answer 29

Irritating; harsh or discordant (of a noise), SCRAPPING (gratter)

Question 30

Grievous

Answer 30

Having very serious effects or causing great pain

“Her death is a grievous loss to the whole of the community.
grievous wounds”

Question 31

Grouse

Answer 31

to complain angrily:

“She’s always grousing about how she’s been treated by the management.”

glousser, pense alors que non laureen invrse

Question 32

Grovel

Answer 32

to behave with too much respect towards someone to show that you are very eager to please them, ramper.Se prosterner.

“He sent a grovelling note of apology.”

Gros, level aui s’excuse pas lvl suffisant

Question 33

Halcyon

Answer 33

Calm and peaceful, carefree; prosperous, successful, happy

“She recalled the halcyon days of her youth.”

Hal en cyan parfait

Question 34

Hallmark

Answer 34

A hallmark is a distinctive characteristic of something or someone.

“Simplicity is a hallmark of this design.
This explosion bears/has all the hallmarks of (= is likely to have been) a terrorist attack.”

Hall une mark (mario sun)

Question 35

Hand-wringing

Answer 35

Grasping, squeezing, etc. of the hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt, etc.
Extend debate over what to do about an issue

hand zwriting but different this time, analyse

Question 36

Hapless

Answer 36

Unlucky and usually unhappy:

“Many children are hapless victims of this war.”

helpless similar

Question 37

Harangue

Answer 37

to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them:

“The subtext is that perhaps the songwriters themselves were harangued for daring to have an interest in music rather than sport.”

vend haran huile pour vit D

Question 38

Harrow

Answer 38

Being attacked by a hungry shark or being chased by an unruly mob on the streets can be described as harrowing, which means “provoking feelings of fear or horror.”

(a large piece of equipment that is pulled behind a tractor (= a farm vehicle) to break the earth into small pieces ready for planting)

Question 39

Hermetic

Answer 39

Hermetic means sealed so that no air can get in

“A child who is completely protected from the outside world might be said to come from a hermetic environment.”

Hermes

Question 40

Hew

Answer 40

Tailler, to cut a large piece out of rock, stone, or another hard material in a rough way:

“The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.”

Katy hew hew hew

Question 41

Hoary

Answer 41

very old and familiar and therefore not interesting or funny

Ho a ri china
“He told a few hoary old jokes and nobody laughed.”

Question 42

Homage

Answer 42

as in french homage

Question 43

Hoodwink

Answer 43

to deceive or trick someone:

“He hoodwinked us into agreeing.
Beware of fake ATMs that try to hoodwink you into giving over your bank card and your code”

capuche clin d’oeil vant de nous tromper

Question 44

Hotly

Answer 44

In an intense, fiery, or heated way

“They were hotly disputed in a friendly atmosphere.”

Question 45

to husband

Answer 45

to use something carefully so that you do not use all of it

“Because of the flooding in the area, roads are cut off and everyone is being asked to husband their supplies”

Question 46

Iconoclast

Answer 46

a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions:

“Rogers, an iconoclast in architecture, is sometimes described as putting the insides of buildings on the outside.”