FLELex CEFR B2

to prime, set in motion; to begin, to get to work on (to commence a project); to break ground (start construction work); to boot; to bait (lace with bait); to bait, chum (try to attract fish with bait); to bait in, to string in, reel in; to bait (e.g. an enemy, to react)

Verb

façonner

to work on, to shape, notably with tool(s); to fashion; to educate morally, spiritually; to perform labor

Verb

méfiance

distrust (lack of trust or confidence)

Noun

argumenter

to present one's arguments, to set out one's arguments, to argue

Verb

logistique

logistics

Noun

décollage

takeoff, lift-off (e.g. of an aircraft from a surface into the air)

Noun

baril

barrel (volume used to measure petroleum and similar products)

Noun

altérer

to alter; change; fiddle with; to cause thirst

Verb

surf

surfing

Noun

unifier

to unify

Verb

dérober

to conceal, screen, shield (à from); to steal (à from); to turn away (one's head, gaze etc.); to shirk, shy away (à from); to hide (oneself); to slip away (free oneself); to give way (collapse); to refuse

Verb

unanime

unanimous

Adjective

injonction

injunction (the act of enjoining)

Noun

teinter

to tint; to color

Verb

repli

crease, fold; secret

Noun

habileté

capacity of doing something well with hands; dexterity; skill, capacity to do a task well, not necessarily manual work

Noun

usure

usury; wear and tear, wear

Noun

pédale

pedal (of bicycle, car etc.); pedal (of piano, organ etc.); queer, homo (homosexual man)

Noun

raccrocher

to hang again; to hang back up; to hang up (end a phone call); to cling (to)

Verb

vieillesse

old age; oldness

Noun

mammifère

mammal

Noun

imprégner

to impregnate; to imbue; to soak up

Verb

soja

soy (sauce); soy (plant)

Noun

bandit

bandit

Noun

rivage

bank; shore; coast

Noun

confesser

to acknowledge, admit; to confess oneself (to confess having sinned)

Verb

brutalement

brutally

Adverb

nouvellement

newly, recently

Adverb

méthodologie

methodology

Noun

illicite

illicit

Adjective

glacé

icy, frozen; glazed, glacé

Adjective

déconnecter

to disconnect, to unplug; to log out

Verb

penseur

thinker

Noun

instruire

to instruct, to teach; (of a judge or other magistrate) to hear, to try (a case)

Verb

léguer

to will, to bequeath; to hand down, pass on (traditions etc.)

Verb

interpellation

hailing, calling out; questioning; heckling; interpellation, questioning; (an instance of) questioning

Noun

étrangler

to strangle; to choke (with laughter, etc.); to say in a voice strangled by emotion.

Verb

déchaîner

to unleash; to arouse, rouse; to cause, bring out; to go wild, to let rip, rage

Verb

migratoire

migration, migrant, migratory

Adjective

guitariste

guitarist

Noun

prédiction

prediction (act of predicting; statement about the future)

Noun

lucide

lucid

Adjective

boitier

case; package

Noun

basilique

covered building, Civil reunion place open to the public; a Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory; a Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance

Noun

bailleur

a landowner who let uncultivated parcels of land to a lessee in a crop-sharing system in early Middle Ages; a lessor in general

Noun

mouvoir

to move; to go around, to move about

Verb

rallye

rally (motor-racing); social dance (or a group of young people who meet at such dances)

Noun

sévir

to crack down, clamp down; to rage; to be rife; to hold sway

Verb

flatter

to flatter; to pet, to caress

Verb

odieux

obnoxious (very annoying); odious; unbearable (of person)

Adjective

affranchir

to free, liberate, enfranchise, emancipate; to discharge, exempt; to prepay (postage), frank (a letter); to pervert; to inform; to release or free oneself

Verb

figurine

figurine; miniature

Noun

héroïque

heroic

Adjective

redoubler

to increase; to augment; to redouble; to repeat a year

Verb

orgueil

pride; pridefulness; haughtiness, arrogance

Noun

affectation

allocation, allotment; assignment; posting; affectation

Noun

muraille

wall

Noun

généralisation

generalisation

Noun

impunité

impunity

Noun

reconstitution

reconstitution; reenactment (of a historical event); reconstruction (of a crime); replenishment

Noun

infernal

hell; infernal; infernal, hellish, awful, terrible

Adjective

malédiction

spell, curse (supernatural detriment)

Noun

pinceau

paintbrush

Noun

individuellement

individually; personally

Adverb

pudeur

sense of modesty or reserve; shame; sense of decency, chastity, propriety

Noun

délivrance

deliverance, relief, liberation; afterbirth

Noun

arrogant

arrogant

Adjective

démarquer

to remove a mark or label from; to remove a bookmark from; take out a bookmark; to reduce or mark down (a price); to get free from a marker (someone who is marking); to lose all the points that have been scored; to distance oneself from; to stand out

Verb

concurrencer

to compete with, be in competition with

Verb

haleine

breath; breathing, respiration

Noun

instabilité

instability

Noun

prononciation

pronunciation

Noun

nuque

nape, back of the neck

Noun

bastion

bastion; stronghold

Noun

oppression

oppression; asthma

Noun

abattoir

abattoir, slaughterhouse (place where animals are slaughtered); abattoir, slaughterhouse (place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed)

Noun

indemnisation

compensation

Noun

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