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4876 words, in teaching order

Words 2801–2900

pub, tavern; cabaret (restaurant or nightclub with live entertainment); tray (object on which things are carried); asarabacca

Noun

to tie in a knot again; to pick up on (a conversation); to rekindle a friendship (with), to get back in touch (with)

Verb

to interview

Verb

to orchestrate

Verb

stove; pan; metal detector; pall

Noun

mécontentement

discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction

Noun

ethnic group

Noun

to mistreat

Verb

grandiose

Adjective

to profile

Verb

to disguise, cover or apply makeup (to); to dress up, to embellish; to make up (a story, lie, scenario, etc.), to fabricate; to pretend

Verb

to reopen, to open again

Verb

to reply, to retort; to duplicate, to recreate (a situation or occurrence)

Verb

repercussion

Noun

to dialogue, discuss, negotiate

Verb

weft; frame; screentone; frame, pipeline; intrigue, plot; frame (chunk of data)

Noun

to penalize; to criminalize

Verb

short; close-cropped (of hair etc.)

Adjective

excitement

Noun

siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

Noun

dwelling, abode; house, home

Noun

reliability

Noun

dynamism

Noun

fertilizer

Noun

to dye and interweave fabrics into cloud motif; to take the piss out of; to look around, to lurk; to bargain-hunt, to antique (informal)

Verb

neuron (a cell of the nervous system)

Noun

to bronze (plate with bronze); to tan, bronze; to tan, bronze, catch a tan

Verb

lantern; street light

Noun

to intimidate

Verb

villager (someone who lives in a village)

Noun

chick (a young chicken); sweetheart, darling (used to address a young boy, or to address a man one is in a romantic relationship with)

Noun

shrimp

Noun

to recite, to declaim; to review, revise (something previously written or learned)

Verb

to continue to exist, to last, to endure

Verb

suppleness

Noun

to package; to condition

Verb

to watch (intently), to watch for, to lie in wait; to await in order to seize; to menace, to loom (to appear in a threatening form)

Verb

accidental (happening by chance)

Adjective

emancipation

Noun

bank (of river, canal); raised pavement, banked edge; year

Noun

donjon, keep

Noun

molecular

Adjective

restrictive, limiting, constraining, onerous; binding

Adjective

prose

Noun

allergic (having an allergy)

Adjective

analytic, analytical

Adjective

vigilant

Adjective

whim; wish; tantrum

Noun

goose

Noun

cavern

Noun

spontaneously

Adverb

exceptionnellement

exceptionally

Adverb

to influence (to exert an influence upon)

Verb

strait (narrow channel of water)

Noun

to modernize

Verb

buyer, purchaser (of real estate)

Noun

to escort; to accompany

Verb

tasting, act of tasting or trying out food

Noun

sociological

Adjective

ambiguous (open to multiple interpretations)

Adjective

dizziness, vertigo

Noun

sign, placard (with a message on it, such as might be carried during a protest)

Noun

to take drugs (intoxicating substances); to drug someone

Verb

to distract

Verb

to maneuver

Verb

fan (hand-held device); range, array

Noun

to colonise

Verb

injection; sting

Noun

to couple

Verb

pivot; fulcrum; lynchpin; taproot; center; circle runner, pivot

Noun

wrath (great anger)

Noun

wild boar (specifically, a full-grown wild boar)

Noun

the quality of being provided gratis, of being free of charge; the quality of being gratuitous (unwarranted or unjustified); gratuitousness; the quality of being gratuitous (without necessity or reason); gratuitousness

Noun

to happen, to occur

Verb

enrichment

Noun

hospitalisation

hospitalization (period of time spent in hospital for treatment)

Noun

Maghrebi

Adjective

deformation; distortion; déformation professionnelle; deformity; strain

Noun

posterity; history

Noun

perfect, faultless, impeccable

Adjective

telephony (2); act of installing a telephone

Noun

language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it; dialect

Noun

to hasten; to mass, to gather

Verb

discount; reduction in price

Noun

theoretically

Adverb

for the time being; provisionally

Adverb

used with ne to form negative statements

Adverb

paradoxically

Adverb

to invite (someone to come somewhere); to invite, suggest (someone to do something)

Verb

pit or shaft cave, pothole; chasm; money pit, drain on finances

Noun

to dress, to clothe; to dress, get dressed

Verb

investiture; inauguration

Noun

to pour, pour out, spill out; to pour (into), to flow (into)

Verb

to bolt (lock with a bolt); to lock (to prevent something, e.g. a button or keypad, from performing its task)

Verb

palm, palm tree; palmier (biscuit)

Noun

calvary; ordeal

Noun

refrain, chorus

Noun

to emigrate; to migrate

Verb

epic, saga; adventurous and intrepid journey

Noun

to endure, to bear

Verb