Volume 3 Flashcards
(134 cards)
hasarder
se hasarder à faire
to risk
to venture to do
prétendument
supposedly
une emprise
hold, influence
rechigner à qqc/qqn
to balk at someone/something
une escale
stop over
enflammé (adj)
aflame
passionate
collant (adj)
sticky
skin tight
clinging (colloquial)
ciller
to blink, flicker
minauder
to simper
fouiner
fouiner dans
to nose about
to rummage through
envahissant
invasive
volage (adj)
fickle
ringard (adj)
old fashioned, out of date
tasteless
les déboires (mp)
disappointments
le célibat
state of being single
les réacteurs
jet engines
agripper
s’agripper à
to grap, grasp firmly
to cling to
le strapontin
jump seat (that stewardess uses during take-off and landings)
la hôstesse de l’aire
stewardess
être happé par
to be caught up in
luisant (adj)
gleaming, shiny
suinter
suinter de
to ooze
to ooze from
to seep through
la superbe
magnificence (as an especially attractive person)
un gourbi
slum