Chapter 1

Question 1

ash

Answer 1

la cendre

Question 2

a hornet

Answer 2

un frelon

Question 3

to stutter (not balbutier)

Answer 3

bégayer

Question 4

dangling

Answer 4

ballant

Question 5

a lid/ cover

Answer 5

une couvercle

Question 6

a coffin

Answer 6

une bière

Question 7

an artists easel

Answer 7

un chevalet

Question 8

a glass wall/ ceiling

Answer 8

une verrière

Question 9

to limp slightly

Answer 9

claudiquer

Question 10

tar/ tarmac

Answer 10

le goudron

Question 11

pasty/ pallid/ wane

Answer 11

blafard

Question 12

adj. bone/ boney/ skeletal

Answer 12

osseux

Question 13

adj. poor/ destitute/ indigent

Answer 13

indigent

Question 14

the thickness/ density

Answer 14

l’épaisseur (f)

Question 15

the thickness of the fog prevented us from going

Answer 15

L’épaisseur du brouillard nous empêchait d’avancer.

Question 16

the splashing

Answer 16

l’éclaboussement (m)

Question 17

to twist/ spiral/ curl hair

Answer 17

tirebouchonner

Question 18

to knit

Answer 18

tricoter

Question 19

the light touch

Answer 19

le frôlement

Question 20

to mumble

Answer 20

bredouiller

Question 21

to make an impression on/ to expose (photography)

Answer 21

impressionner

Question 22

the chatter

Answer 22

le jacassement

Question 23

to nod ones head gently

Answer 23

dodeliner de la tête

Question 24

a commotion

Answer 24

un remue-ménage

Question 25

we would have sounded like the muffled chattering of parakeets

Answer 25

On aurait dit d'un jacassement assourdi de perruches

Question 26

we thought this way you could watch over the deceased

Answer 26

Nous avons pensé que vous pourriez ainsi veiller la disparue.

Question 27

I took it upon myself to do what was necessary

Answer 27

J'ai pris sur moi de faire le nécessaire

Question 28

two hornets buzzed against the class roof

Answer 28

Deux frelons bourdonnaient contre la verrière

Question 29

very quickly, the night had thickened above the glass roof

Answer 29

Très vite, la nuit s'était épaissie au-dessus de la verrière

Question 30

idiom - rub salt into the wound

Answer 30

remuer le couteau dans la plaie