{ "name": "French C2 Core Vocab", "front_language": "French", "back_language": "English", "cards": [ { "front": "s'arroger", "back": "to arrogate / to claim (unjustly)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 1, "example_front": "Il s'est arrogé tous les pouvoirs.", "example_back": "He arrogated all powers to himself." }, { "front": "s'enorgueillir", "back": "to pride oneself", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 2, "example_front": "La ville s'enorgueillit de son patrimoine.", "example_back": "The town prides itself on its heritage." }, { "front": "la mise en abyme", "back": "mise en abyme / story within a story", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 3, "example_front": "Le roman joue sur la mise en abyme.", "example_back": "The novel plays with a story within a story." }, { "front": "le quant-à-soi", "back": "reserve / aloofness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 4, "example_front": "Elle garde son quant-à-soi.", "example_back": "She keeps her distance." }, { "front": "benoît/e", "back": "meek / sanctimonious", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 5, "example_front": "Il prit un air benoît.", "example_back": "He put on a sanctimonious air." }, { "front": "le forfait", "back": "heinous crime (literary)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 6, "example_front": "Il paya pour son forfait.", "example_back": "He paid for his crime." }, { "front": "l'engouement", "back": "craze / infatuation", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 7, "example_front": "L'engouement pour le vinyle surprend.", "example_back": "The craze for vinyl is surprising." }, { "front": "fat", "back": "conceited / smug", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 8, "example_front": "C'est un jeune homme fat et prétentieux.", "example_back": "He's a smug, pretentious young man." }, { "front": "la fronde", "back": "revolt / rebellion (internal)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 9, "example_front": "Une fronde des députés menace le gouvernement.", "example_back": "A rebellion among MPs threatens the government." }, { "front": "l'apanage", "back": "prerogative / preserve", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 10, "example_front": "Le courage n'est pas l'apanage de la jeunesse.", "example_back": "Courage isn't the preserve of youth." }, { "front": "la morgue", "back": "arrogance / haughtiness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 11, "example_front": "Il nous regarda avec morgue.", "example_back": "He looked at us haughtily." }, { "front": "nonobstant", "back": "notwithstanding", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 12, "example_front": "Nonobstant les objections, le projet est adopté.", "example_back": "Notwithstanding the objections, the project is adopted." }, { "front": "avenant/e", "back": "pleasant / personable", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 13, "example_front": "Le serveur est très avenant.", "example_back": "The waiter is very personable." }, { "front": "l'emphase", "back": "bombast / pomposity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 14, "example_front": "Il parle avec emphase de ses réussites.", "example_back": "He talks pompously about his successes." }, { "front": "le tollé", "back": "outcry", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 15, "example_front": "La décision a provoqué un tollé.", "example_back": "The decision caused an outcry." }, { "front": "la suffisance", "back": "smugness / self-importance", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 16, "example_front": "Il parle avec suffisance.", "example_back": "He speaks smugly." }, { "front": "sulfureux/sulfureuse", "back": "controversial / scandalous", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 17, "example_front": "C'est un auteur sulfureux.", "example_back": "He's a scandalous author." }, { "front": "âpre", "back": "harsh / bitter (fight)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 18, "example_front": "Les négociations furent âpres.", "example_back": "The negotiations were bitter." }, { "front": "la vergogne", "back": "shame (sans vergogne)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 19, "example_front": "Il ment sans vergogne.", "example_back": "He lies shamelessly." }, { "front": "dispendieux/dispendieuse", "back": "costly / extravagant", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 20, "example_front": "C'est un projet dispendieux.", "example_back": "It's an extravagant project." }, { "front": "l'exégèse", "back": "exegesis", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 21, "example_front": "Elle propose une nouvelle exégèse du texte.", "example_back": "She proposes a new exegesis of the text." }, { "front": "la vacuité", "back": "emptiness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 22, "example_front": "Il dénonce la vacuité du débat.", "example_back": "He denounces the emptiness of the debate." }, { "front": "le marasme", "back": "stagnation / slump", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 23, "example_front": "Le secteur est en plein marasme.", "example_back": "The sector is in a deep slump." }, { "front": "désuet/désuète", "back": "outdated / old-fashioned", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 24, "example_front": "Cette expression paraît désuète.", "example_back": "This expression seems old-fashioned." }, { "front": "l'épistémologie", "back": "epistemology", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 25, "example_front": "Il enseigne l'épistémologie des sciences.", "example_back": "He teaches the epistemology of science." }, { "front": "patelin/e", "back": "smooth-talking / unctuous", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 26, "example_front": "Il prit un ton patelin pour nous convaincre.", "example_back": "He adopted an unctuous tone to convince us." }, { "front": "la phénoménologie", "back": "phenomenology", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 27, "example_front": "Elle étudie la phénoménologie de Husserl.", "example_back": "She studies Husserl's phenomenology." }, { "front": "la chausse-trape", "back": "trap / pitfall", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 28, "example_front": "Le contrat est plein de chausse-trapes.", "example_back": "The contract is full of pitfalls." }, { "front": "l'opprobre", "back": "opprobrium / disgrace", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 29, "example_front": "Il a jeté l'opprobre sur sa famille.", "example_back": "He brought disgrace on his family." }, { "front": "la sollicitude", "back": "solicitude / concern", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 30, "example_front": "Elle l'entoura de sollicitude.", "example_back": "She surrounded him with care." }, { "front": "péremptoire", "back": "peremptory", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 31, "example_front": "Il a répondu sur un ton péremptoire.", "example_back": "He replied in a peremptory tone." }, { "front": "fallacieux/fallacieuse", "back": "fallacious / misleading", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "debate" ], "word_frequency": 32, "example_front": "C'est un argument fallacieux.", "example_back": "It's a fallacious argument." }, { "front": "l'iniquité", "back": "iniquity / injustice", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 33, "example_front": "Il dénonce l'iniquité du système.", "example_back": "He denounces the injustice of the system." }, { "front": "coi/coite", "back": "silent / speechless", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 34, "example_front": "La réponse le laissa coi.", "example_back": "The answer left him speechless." }, { "front": "la vindicte", "back": "public condemnation", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 35, "example_front": "Il a été livré à la vindicte populaire.", "example_back": "He was thrown to the mob." }, { "front": "infléchir", "back": "to inflect / to shift (policy)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 36, "example_front": "Le gouvernement a infléchi sa politique.", "example_back": "The government shifted its policy." }, { "front": "la gageure", "back": "challenge / wager (near-impossible)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 37, "example_front": "Réformer ce système est une gageure.", "example_back": "Reforming this system is a tall order." }, { "front": "la sédition", "back": "sedition", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 38, "example_front": "Ils furent accusés de sédition.", "example_back": "They were accused of sedition." }, { "front": "la lubie", "back": "whim / fad", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 39, "example_front": "C'est sa nouvelle lubie.", "example_back": "It's his latest whim." }, { "front": "l'égarement", "back": "aberration / lapse", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 40, "example_front": "Il regrette ce moment d'égarement.", "example_back": "He regrets that lapse." }, { "front": "ressasser", "back": "to dwell on / to rehash", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 41, "example_front": "Il ressasse sans cesse ses échecs.", "example_back": "He keeps dwelling on his failures." }, { "front": "l'oxymore", "back": "oxymoron", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 42, "example_front": "« Une obscure clarté » est un oxymore.", "example_back": "\"An obscure clarity\" is an oxymoron." }, { "front": "rédhibitoire", "back": "prohibitive / a deal-breaker", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 43, "example_front": "Le prix est rédhibitoire.", "example_back": "The price is a deal-breaker." }, { "front": "laconique", "back": "laconic", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 44, "example_front": "Il fit une réponse laconique.", "example_back": "He gave a laconic reply." }, { "front": "la cacophonie", "back": "cacophony", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 45, "example_front": "Le gouvernement parle dans la cacophonie.", "example_back": "The government speaks in cacophony." }, { "front": "la déliquescence", "back": "decay / decline", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 46, "example_front": "L'État est en pleine déliquescence.", "example_back": "The state is in full decline." }, { "front": "la paupérisation", "back": "impoverishment", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 47, "example_front": "On observe une paupérisation des classes moyennes.", "example_back": "The middle classes are becoming impoverished." }, { "front": "l'herméneutique", "back": "hermeneutics", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 48, "example_front": "L'herméneutique de Ricœur est exigeante.", "example_back": "Ricœur's hermeneutics is demanding." }, { "front": "la doxa", "back": "received opinion", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "debate" ], "word_frequency": 49, "example_front": "Il remet en cause la doxa économique.", "example_back": "He challenges economic orthodoxy." }, { "front": "exsangue", "back": "drained / bloodless", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 50, "example_front": "L'économie sort exsangue de la guerre.", "example_back": "The economy emerges drained from the war." }, { "front": "fustiger", "back": "to castigate", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 51, "example_front": "L'éditorial fustige l'inaction du gouvernement.", "example_back": "The editorial castigates the government's inaction." }, { "front": "la velléité", "back": "vague intention / half-hearted wish", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 52, "example_front": "Il a des velléités de réforme.", "example_back": "He has half-hearted reform ambitions." }, { "front": "la bévue", "back": "blunder", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 53, "example_front": "Il a commis une bévue diplomatique.", "example_back": "He made a diplomatic blunder." }, { "front": "l'invective", "back": "invective / abuse", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 54, "example_front": "Le débat a tourné à l'invective.", "example_back": "The debate descended into abuse." }, { "front": "la gabegie", "back": "waste / mismanagement", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 55, "example_front": "Le rapport dénonce la gabegie des fonds publics.", "example_back": "The report denounces the waste of public funds." }, { "front": "l'incurie", "back": "negligence", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 56, "example_front": "Le bâtiment s'effondre par incurie.", "example_back": "The building is collapsing through negligence." }, { "front": "l'ostracisme", "back": "ostracism", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 57, "example_front": "Il a été victime d'ostracisme.", "example_back": "He was ostracized." }, { "front": "la praxis", "back": "praxis / practice", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 58, "example_front": "Il faut articuler théorie et praxis.", "example_back": "Theory and practice must be linked." }, { "front": "la mansuétude", "back": "leniency / indulgence", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 59, "example_front": "Le juge a fait preuve de mansuétude.", "example_back": "The judge showed leniency." }, { "front": "la sagacité", "back": "sagacity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 60, "example_front": "Elle a analysé la situation avec sagacité.", "example_back": "She analyzed the situation with sagacity." }, { "front": "acquiescer", "back": "to acquiesce", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 61, "example_front": "Il acquiesça d'un signe de tête.", "example_back": "He acquiesced with a nod." }, { "front": "pléthorique", "back": "excessive / overstaffed", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 62, "example_front": "L'administration est pléthorique.", "example_back": "The administration is overstaffed." }, { "front": "la contrition", "back": "contrition", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 63, "example_front": "Il exprima sa contrition.", "example_back": "He expressed his contrition." }, { "front": "ineffable", "back": "ineffable", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 64, "example_front": "Elle ressentit une joie ineffable.", "example_back": "She felt an ineffable joy." }, { "front": "inextricable", "back": "inextricable", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 65, "example_front": "La situation est devenue inextricable.", "example_back": "The situation has become inextricable." }, { "front": "la métonymie", "back": "metonymy", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 66, "example_front": "« Boire un verre » est une métonymie.", "example_back": "\"Have a glass\" is a metonymy." }, { "front": "le syncrétisme", "back": "syncretism", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 67, "example_front": "Le vaudou est un exemple de syncrétisme.", "example_back": "Voodoo is an example of syncretism." }, { "front": "le parangon", "back": "paragon", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 68, "example_front": "Il était le parangon de la vertu.", "example_back": "He was the paragon of virtue." }, { "front": "l'étiage", "back": "low-water mark / lowest point", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 69, "example_front": "Les ventes sont à l'étiage.", "example_back": "Sales are at their lowest point." }, { "front": "prosaïque", "back": "prosaic / mundane", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 70, "example_front": "Il s'intéresse aux aspects prosaïques du quotidien.", "example_back": "He's interested in the mundane aspects of daily life." }, { "front": "la sinécure", "back": "sinecure", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 71, "example_front": "Ce poste n'est pas une sinécure.", "example_back": "This job is no picnic." }, { "front": "la déshérence", "back": "abandonment / neglect", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 72, "example_front": "Le site industriel est tombé en déshérence.", "example_back": "The industrial site fell into neglect." }, { "front": "dilapider", "back": "to squander", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 73, "example_front": "Il a dilapidé sa fortune au jeu.", "example_back": "He squandered his fortune gambling." }, { "front": "l'outrecuidance", "back": "presumptuousness / arrogance", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 74, "example_front": "Quelle outrecuidance de prétendre cela !", "example_back": "What arrogance to claim that!" }, { "front": "la gnose", "back": "gnosis / esoteric knowledge", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 75, "example_front": "Le mouvement se réclame d'une gnose secrète.", "example_back": "The movement claims secret knowledge." }, { "front": "le vade-mecum", "back": "handbook", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 76, "example_front": "Ce livre est le vade-mecum du traducteur.", "example_back": "This book is the translator's handbook." }, { "front": "le camouflet", "back": "snub / humiliation", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 77, "example_front": "Ce vote est un camouflet pour le président.", "example_back": "This vote is a snub for the president." }, { "front": "l'aphorisme", "back": "aphorism", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 78, "example_front": "La Rochefoucauld excelle dans l'aphorisme.", "example_back": "La Rochefoucauld excels at aphorism." }, { "front": "mièvre", "back": "insipid / mawkish", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 79, "example_front": "La fin du film est mièvre.", "example_back": "The film's ending is mawkish." }, { "front": "l'aréopage", "back": "gathering of experts / assembly", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 80, "example_front": "Un aréopage de spécialistes a examiné le dossier.", "example_back": "An assembly of experts examined the file." }, { "front": "l'ubiquité", "back": "ubiquity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 81, "example_front": "L'ubiquité des écrans inquiète les pédiatres.", "example_back": "The ubiquity of screens worries pediatricians." }, { "front": "acariâtre", "back": "cantankerous", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 82, "example_front": "Sa voisine acariâtre se plaint de tout.", "example_back": "His cantankerous neighbor complains about everything." }, { "front": "la maestria", "back": "mastery / virtuosity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 83, "example_front": "Elle joue avec maestria.", "example_back": "She plays with mastery." }, { "front": "le brocard", "back": "gibe / taunt", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 84, "example_front": "Il a essuyé les brocards de la presse.", "example_back": "He endured the press's gibes." }, { "front": "le capharnaüm", "back": "shambles / jumble", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 85, "example_front": "Son bureau est un véritable capharnaüm.", "example_back": "His office is a real shambles." }, { "front": "la chienlit", "back": "chaos / disorder", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 86, "example_front": "« La réforme oui, la chienlit non », dit de Gaulle.", "example_back": "\"Reform yes, chaos no,\" said de Gaulle." }, { "front": "spécieux/spécieuse", "back": "specious", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "debate" ], "word_frequency": 87, "example_front": "Ce raisonnement est spécieux.", "example_back": "This reasoning is specious." }, { "front": "le tropisme", "back": "tendency / pull", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 88, "example_front": "Il a un tropisme européen.", "example_back": "He has a pro-European leaning." }, { "front": "l'escarcelle", "back": "purse / coffers", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 89, "example_front": "Le contrat tombe dans l'escarcelle du groupe.", "example_back": "The contract lands in the group's coffers." }, { "front": "décrier", "back": "to disparage", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 90, "example_front": "La réforme est décriée par les syndicats.", "example_back": "The reform is disparaged by the unions." }, { "front": "l'eschatologie", "back": "eschatology", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 91, "example_front": "Le texte relève de l'eschatologie chrétienne.", "example_back": "The text belongs to Christian eschatology." }, { "front": "abscons/e", "back": "abstruse / obscure", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 92, "example_front": "Son style est volontairement abscons.", "example_back": "His style is deliberately abstruse." }, { "front": "emphatique", "back": "bombastic", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 93, "example_front": "Son style emphatique fatigue.", "example_back": "His bombastic style is tiring." }, { "front": "rébarbatif/rébarbative", "back": "off-putting / forbidding", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 94, "example_front": "Le sujet paraît rébarbatif.", "example_back": "The subject seems off-putting." }, { "front": "abjurer", "back": "to abjure / to recant", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "abstract" ], "word_frequency": 95, "example_front": "Galilée dut abjurer ses idées.", "example_back": "Galileo had to recant his ideas." }, { "front": "tatillon/tatillonne", "back": "nitpicking / fussy", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 96, "example_front": "Le contrôleur est très tatillon.", "example_back": "The inspector is very fussy." }, { "front": "ombrageux/ombrageuse", "back": "touchy / easily offended", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 97, "example_front": "Il est d'un caractère ombrageux.", "example_back": "He has a touchy character." }, { "front": "le verbiage", "back": "verbiage", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 98, "example_front": "Ce rapport n'est que du verbiage.", "example_back": "This report is nothing but verbiage." }, { "front": "truculent/e", "back": "colorful / earthy", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 99, "example_front": "Rabelais a un style truculent.", "example_back": "Rabelais has an earthy style." }, { "front": "la litote", "back": "litotes / understatement", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 100, "example_front": "« Ce n'est pas mauvais » est une litote.", "example_back": "\"It's not bad\" is a litotes." }, { "front": "le dédit", "back": "cancellation penalty / retraction", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 101, "example_front": "Le contrat prévoit un dédit.", "example_back": "The contract provides for a cancellation penalty." }, { "front": "la gouaille", "back": "cheeky banter", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 102, "example_front": "Il a la gouaille des titis parisiens.", "example_back": "He has the cheeky banter of a Paris street kid." }, { "front": "alambiqué/e", "back": "convoluted", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 103, "example_front": "Il donne des explications alambiquées.", "example_back": "He gives convoluted explanations." }, { "front": "grandiloquent/e", "back": "grandiloquent", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 104, "example_front": "Il prononça un discours grandiloquent.", "example_back": "He gave a grandiloquent speech." }, { "front": "interlope", "back": "shady / illicit", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 105, "example_front": "Il fréquente un milieu interlope.", "example_back": "He frequents shady circles." }, { "front": "le micmac", "back": "scheming / funny business", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 106, "example_front": "Il y a eu du micmac dans les comptes.", "example_back": "There was some funny business in the accounts." }, { "front": "l'entregent", "back": "savoir-faire / social skill", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 107, "example_front": "Grâce à son entregent, il a obtenu le contrat.", "example_back": "Thanks to his networking skill, he got the contract." }, { "front": "la logorrhée", "back": "logorrhea / verbal diarrhea", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 108, "example_front": "Sa logorrhée épuise l'auditoire.", "example_back": "His endless talking exhausts the audience." }, { "front": "pourfendre", "back": "to attack / to denounce", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 109, "example_front": "Il pourfend la bureaucratie.", "example_back": "He attacks bureaucracy." }, { "front": "l'estocade", "back": "final blow / coup de grâce", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 110, "example_front": "Ce scandale a porté l'estocade à sa carrière.", "example_back": "This scandal dealt the final blow to his career." }, { "front": "éculé/e", "back": "hackneyed / worn-out", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 111, "example_front": "Le film repose sur des clichés éculés.", "example_back": "The film relies on worn-out clichés." }, { "front": "la rémanence", "back": "persistence / lingering", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "science" ], "word_frequency": 112, "example_front": "La rémanence des images sur la rétine.", "example_back": "The persistence of images on the retina." }, { "front": "l'entrisme", "back": "entryism", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 113, "example_front": "Le parti dénonce l'entrisme de groupes radicaux.", "example_back": "The party denounces entryism by radical groups." }, { "front": "la félonie", "back": "treachery", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 114, "example_front": "Il fut accusé de félonie.", "example_back": "He was accused of treachery." }, { "front": "le galimatias", "back": "gibberish", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 115, "example_front": "Ce texte est un galimatias incompréhensible.", "example_back": "This text is incomprehensible gibberish." }, { "front": "hiératique", "back": "hieratic / solemn", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 116, "example_front": "La statue a une pose hiératique.", "example_back": "The statue has a solemn pose." }, { "front": "l'acmé", "back": "peak / climax", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 117, "example_front": "La tension atteint son acmé au dernier acte.", "example_back": "The tension peaks in the last act." }, { "front": "l'atavisme", "back": "atavism / inherited trait", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "science" ], "word_frequency": 118, "example_front": "C'est un atavisme familial.", "example_back": "It's a family trait." }, { "front": "le pataquès", "back": "blunder / mess", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 119, "example_front": "Cette affaire tourne au pataquès.", "example_back": "This affair is turning into a mess." }, { "front": "la turpitude", "back": "turpitude / depravity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 120, "example_front": "Le roman explore les turpitudes humaines.", "example_back": "The novel explores human depravity." }, { "front": "la coterie", "back": "clique / coterie", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 121, "example_front": "Une petite coterie contrôle le prix littéraire.", "example_back": "A small clique controls the literary prize." }, { "front": "la concussion", "back": "misappropriation (by an official)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 122, "example_front": "Le maire est poursuivi pour concussion.", "example_back": "The mayor is being prosecuted for misappropriation." }, { "front": "la vénalité", "back": "venality", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 123, "example_front": "La vénalité des charges était courante sous l'Ancien Régime.", "example_back": "The sale of offices was common under the Ancien Régime." }, { "front": "la maïeutique", "back": "maieutics / Socratic method", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 124, "example_front": "Socrate pratiquait la maïeutique.", "example_back": "Socrates practiced the Socratic method." }, { "front": "la prébende", "back": "sinecure / perk", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 125, "example_front": "Il distribue les prébendes à ses amis.", "example_back": "He hands out perks to his friends." }, { "front": "louvoyer", "back": "to tack / to equivocate", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 126, "example_front": "Le ministre louvoie entre les deux camps.", "example_back": "The minister equivocates between the two camps." }, { "front": "pérorer", "back": "to hold forth / to pontificate", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 127, "example_front": "Il pérore sur tous les sujets.", "example_back": "He holds forth on every subject." }, { "front": "vilipender", "back": "to vilify", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 128, "example_front": "La presse l'a vilipendé.", "example_back": "The press vilified him." }, { "front": "captieux/captieuse", "back": "captious / insidious", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "debate" ], "word_frequency": 129, "example_front": "C'est une question captieuse.", "example_back": "It's a trick question." }, { "front": "le satisfecit", "back": "seal of approval", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 130, "example_front": "Le ministre s'est décerné un satisfecit.", "example_back": "The minister gave himself a pat on the back." }, { "front": "gloser", "back": "to comment / to go on (about)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 131, "example_front": "Les experts glosent à l'infini sur la crise.", "example_back": "Experts go on endlessly about the crisis." }, { "front": "le chiasme", "back": "chiasmus", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 132, "example_front": "« Il faut manger pour vivre et non vivre pour manger » est un chiasme.", "example_back": "\"Eat to live, not live to eat\" is a chiasmus." }, { "front": "madré/e", "back": "crafty / wily", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 133, "example_front": "C'est un négociateur madré.", "example_back": "He's a wily negotiator." }, { "front": "la dérobade", "back": "evasion / dodge", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 134, "example_front": "Sa réponse fut une dérobade.", "example_back": "His answer was a dodge." }, { "front": "falot/e", "back": "colorless / insignificant", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 135, "example_front": "C'est un personnage falot.", "example_back": "He's a colorless character." }, { "front": "la faconde", "back": "loquacity / gift of the gab", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 136, "example_front": "Il charme son public par sa faconde.", "example_back": "He charms his audience with his gift of the gab." }, { "front": "la pusillanimité", "back": "faint-heartedness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 137, "example_front": "On lui reproche sa pusillanimité.", "example_back": "He's criticized for his faint-heartedness." }, { "front": "la prodigalité", "back": "prodigality / lavishness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 138, "example_front": "Sa prodigalité l'a ruiné.", "example_back": "His lavishness ruined him." }, { "front": "l'oukase", "back": "edict / diktat", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 139, "example_front": "Il gouverne par oukases.", "example_back": "He governs by diktat." }, { "front": "l'acrimonie", "back": "acrimony / bitterness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 140, "example_front": "Il répondit avec acrimonie.", "example_back": "He replied with acrimony." }, { "front": "l'hapax", "back": "hapax / one-off occurrence", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 141, "example_front": "Ce mot est un hapax dans l'œuvre de Racine.", "example_back": "This word occurs only once in Racine's work." }, { "front": "l'hubris", "back": "hubris", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 142, "example_front": "L'hubris du héros cause sa perte.", "example_back": "The hero's hubris causes his downfall." }, { "front": "la déréliction", "back": "abandonment / dereliction", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 143, "example_front": "Le roman décrit la déréliction de l'homme moderne.", "example_back": "The novel depicts modern man's sense of abandonment." }, { "front": "la prévarication", "back": "breach of trust (by an official)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 144, "example_front": "Le juge fut accusé de prévarication.", "example_back": "The judge was accused of breach of trust." }, { "front": "sibyllin/e", "back": "cryptic", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 145, "example_front": "Il a fait une déclaration sibylline.", "example_back": "He made a cryptic statement." }, { "front": "la veulerie", "back": "spinelessness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 146, "example_front": "Sa veulerie face au chef est pathétique.", "example_back": "His spinelessness before the boss is pathetic." }, { "front": "circonvenir", "back": "to circumvent / to win over (by trickery)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 147, "example_front": "Il a circonvenu le vieil homme pour hériter.", "example_back": "He manipulated the old man to inherit." }, { "front": "le salmigondis", "back": "hodgepodge", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 148, "example_front": "Son programme est un salmigondis d'idées.", "example_back": "His program is a hodgepodge of ideas." }, { "front": "le mirliton", "back": "doggerel (vers de mirliton)", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 149, "example_front": "Ce sont des vers de mirliton.", "example_back": "It's doggerel." }, { "front": "l'impéritie", "back": "incompetence", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 150, "example_front": "L'impéritie des dirigeants a aggravé la crise.", "example_back": "The leaders' incompetence worsened the crisis." }, { "front": "tancer", "back": "to rebuke", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 151, "example_front": "Le directeur a tancé l'élève.", "example_back": "The headmaster rebuked the pupil." }, { "front": "chafouin/e", "back": "sly / shifty", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 152, "example_front": "Il a une mine chafouine.", "example_back": "He has a shifty look." }, { "front": "sentencieux/sentencieuse", "back": "sententious / moralizing", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 153, "example_front": "Il parle d'un ton sentencieux.", "example_back": "He speaks in a moralizing tone." }, { "front": "la rouerie", "back": "cunning / trickery", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 154, "example_front": "Il a obtenu le poste par rouerie.", "example_back": "He got the job through trickery." }, { "front": "l'antiphrase", "back": "antiphrasis / ironic statement", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 155, "example_front": "« Quel temps magnifique ! » sous la pluie est une antiphrase.", "example_back": "\"What lovely weather!\" in the rain is antiphrasis." }, { "front": "l'aménité", "back": "amiability / kindness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 156, "example_front": "Elle nous reçut avec aménité.", "example_back": "She received us with kindness." }, { "front": "la prétérition", "back": "paralipsis", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 157, "example_front": "« Je ne parlerai pas de ses mensonges » est une prétérition.", "example_back": "\"I won't mention his lies\" is paralipsis." }, { "front": "fielleux/fielleuse", "back": "venomous / spiteful", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 158, "example_front": "Il a publié un article fielleux.", "example_back": "He published a spiteful article." }, { "front": "le dithyrambe", "back": "eulogy / rapturous praise", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 159, "example_front": "La critique a publié un dithyrambe.", "example_back": "The critic published a rapturous review." }, { "front": "impavide", "back": "undaunted / impassive", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 160, "example_front": "Il resta impavide face au danger.", "example_back": "He remained undaunted in the face of danger." }, { "front": "la diégèse", "back": "diegesis / story world", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 161, "example_front": "La musique fait partie de la diégèse.", "example_back": "The music is part of the story world." }, { "front": "l'émolument", "back": "emolument / fee", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 162, "example_front": "Les émoluments du notaire sont réglementés.", "example_back": "The notary's fees are regulated." }, { "front": "lénifiant/e", "back": "soothing / complacent", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 163, "example_front": "Le discours officiel est lénifiant.", "example_back": "The official discourse is complacent." }, { "front": "le pandémonium", "back": "pandemonium", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 164, "example_front": "La salle était un pandémonium.", "example_back": "The room was pandemonium." }, { "front": "l'imprécation", "back": "imprecation / curse", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 165, "example_front": "Il lança des imprécations contre le ciel.", "example_back": "He hurled curses at the sky." }, { "front": "la forfanterie", "back": "bragging", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 166, "example_front": "Ses promesses relèvent de la forfanterie.", "example_back": "His promises are mere bragging." }, { "front": "compulser", "back": "to consult / to pore over", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 167, "example_front": "Elle a compulsé les archives pendant des mois.", "example_back": "She pored over the archives for months." }, { "front": "l'algarade", "back": "altercation / outburst", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 168, "example_front": "Une algarade a éclaté entre les deux élus.", "example_back": "An altercation broke out between the two officials." }, { "front": "subreptice", "back": "surreptitious", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "law" ], "word_frequency": 169, "example_front": "Il a agi de manière subreptice.", "example_back": "He acted surreptitiously." }, { "front": "gouailleur/gouailleuse", "back": "cheeky / mocking", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 170, "example_front": "Il a l'humour gouailleur des Parisiens.", "example_back": "He has the cheeky humor of Parisians." }, { "front": "l'anacoluthe", "back": "anacoluthon", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 171, "example_front": "La phrase contient une anacoluthe.", "example_back": "The sentence contains an anacoluthon." }, { "front": "oiseux/oiseuse", "back": "idle / pointless", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "debate" ], "word_frequency": 172, "example_front": "C'est un débat oiseux.", "example_back": "It's a pointless debate." }, { "front": "filandreux/filandreuse", "back": "long-winded / rambling", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 173, "example_front": "Ses explications sont filandreuses.", "example_back": "His explanations are long-winded." }, { "front": "la componction", "back": "solemnity / affected gravity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 174, "example_front": "Il s'exprima avec componction.", "example_back": "He spoke with affected solemnity." }, { "front": "la munificence", "back": "munificence / generosity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "culture" ], "word_frequency": 175, "example_front": "Le mécène était connu pour sa munificence.", "example_back": "The patron was known for his munificence." }, { "front": "obérer", "back": "to burden (financially) / to compromise", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "business" ], "word_frequency": 176, "example_front": "Cette dette obère l'avenir de l'entreprise.", "example_back": "This debt burdens the company's future." }, { "front": "compassé/e", "back": "stiff / starchy", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 177, "example_front": "Il a des manières compassées.", "example_back": "He has stiff manners." }, { "front": "primesautier/primesautière", "back": "impulsive / spontaneous", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 178, "example_front": "Elle a un tempérament primesautier.", "example_back": "She has an impulsive temperament." }, { "front": "l'atermoiement", "back": "procrastination / prevarication", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 179, "example_front": "Après des mois d'atermoiements, le gouvernement a tranché.", "example_back": "After months of prevarication, the government decided." }, { "front": "le thuriféraire", "back": "sycophant / flatterer", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 180, "example_front": "Les thuriféraires du président applaudissent.", "example_back": "The president's flatterers applaud." }, { "front": "la pétaudière", "back": "bedlam / shambles", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 181, "example_front": "L'assemblée était une vraie pétaudière.", "example_back": "The assembly was absolute bedlam." }, { "front": "l'univocité", "back": "univocity / unambiguousness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 182, "example_front": "La loi manque d'univocité.", "example_back": "The law lacks clarity." }, { "front": "la prolixité", "back": "verbosity", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 183, "example_front": "La prolixité du rapport décourage le lecteur.", "example_back": "The report's verbosity discourages the reader." }, { "front": "la jactance", "back": "boastfulness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 184, "example_front": "Sa jactance finit par lasser.", "example_back": "His boastfulness ends up tiring people." }, { "front": "subodorer", "back": "to suspect / to sense", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 185, "example_front": "Je subodore une manœuvre.", "example_back": "I sense a maneuver." }, { "front": "la prosopopée", "back": "prosopopoeia / personification", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 186, "example_front": "Le poète utilise la prosopopée.", "example_back": "The poet uses personification." }, { "front": "l'épigone", "back": "follower / imitator", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "arts" ], "word_frequency": 187, "example_front": "Ce peintre n'est qu'un épigone de Monet.", "example_back": "This painter is just an imitator of Monet." }, { "front": "l'obséquiosité", "back": "obsequiousness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 188, "example_front": "Son obséquiosité envers le patron est gênante.", "example_back": "His obsequiousness toward the boss is embarrassing." }, { "front": "le pinaillage", "back": "nitpicking", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 189, "example_front": "Assez de pinaillage, avançons.", "example_back": "Enough nitpicking, let's move on." }, { "front": "l'affidé", "back": "henchman / confederate", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 190, "example_front": "Le chef et ses affidés contrôlent le parti.", "example_back": "The leader and his henchmen control the party." }, { "front": "abhorrer", "back": "to abhor", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "psychology" ], "word_frequency": 191, "example_front": "Il abhorre l'hypocrisie.", "example_back": "He abhors hypocrisy." }, { "front": "la tartuferie", "back": "hypocrisy", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 192, "example_front": "Il dénonce la tartuferie des bien-pensants.", "example_back": "He denounces the hypocrisy of the self-righteous." }, { "front": "l'hypallage", "back": "hypallage / transferred epithet", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 193, "example_front": "« Un silence pensif » est une hypallage.", "example_back": "\"A pensive silence\" is a hypallage." }, { "front": "la palinodie", "back": "recantation / about-turn", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 194, "example_front": "Les palinodies du ministre ne surprennent plus.", "example_back": "The minister's about-turns no longer surprise anyone." }, { "front": "l'apophtegme", "back": "apophthegm / maxim", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 195, "example_front": "Son livre est un recueil d'apophtegmes.", "example_back": "His book is a collection of maxims." }, { "front": "la catachrèse", "back": "catachresis", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 196, "example_front": "« Les pieds de la table » est une catachrèse.", "example_back": "\"The legs of the table\" is a catachresis." }, { "front": "obvier à", "back": "to obviate / to prevent", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 197, "example_front": "Des mesures ont été prises pour obvier à ce risque.", "example_back": "Measures were taken to prevent this risk." }, { "front": "le psittacisme", "back": "parroting", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 198, "example_front": "L'apprentissage par cœur mène au psittacisme.", "example_back": "Rote learning leads to parroting." }, { "front": "atermoyer", "back": "to procrastinate / to stall", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 199, "example_front": "Le gouvernement continue d'atermoyer.", "example_back": "The government keeps stalling." }, { "front": "l'asyndète", "back": "asyndeton", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 200, "example_front": "« Je suis venu, j'ai vu, j'ai vaincu » est une asyndète.", "example_back": "\"I came, I saw, I conquered\" is asyndeton." }, { "front": "la cuistrerie", "back": "pedantry", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 201, "example_front": "Sa cuistrerie agace ses collègues.", "example_back": "His pedantry annoys his colleagues." }, { "front": "la rodomontade", "back": "bluster / boasting", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 202, "example_front": "Ses menaces ne sont que rodomontades.", "example_back": "His threats are just bluster." }, { "front": "la circonlocution", "back": "circumlocution", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 203, "example_front": "Il parla par circonlocutions pour éviter le sujet.", "example_back": "He spoke in circumlocutions to avoid the subject." }, { "front": "amphigourique", "back": "muddled / gibberish-like", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "rhetoric" ], "word_frequency": 204, "example_front": "Le discours était amphigourique.", "example_back": "The speech was a muddle." }, { "front": "la billevesée", "back": "nonsense / idle talk", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 205, "example_front": "Ce ne sont que des billevesées.", "example_back": "It's nothing but nonsense." }, { "front": "la superfétation", "back": "superfluous addition", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "academic" ], "word_frequency": 206, "example_front": "Ce chapitre est une superfétation.", "example_back": "This chapter is a superfluous addition." }, { "front": "la sycophantie", "back": "sycophancy / slander", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "politics" ], "word_frequency": 207, "example_front": "La cour était rongée par la sycophantie.", "example_back": "The court was riddled with sycophancy." }, { "front": "controuvé/e", "back": "fabricated / false", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "media" ], "word_frequency": 208, "example_front": "L'article repose sur des faits controuvés.", "example_back": "The article rests on fabricated facts." }, { "front": "vétilleux/vétilleuse", "back": "nitpicking", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "register" ], "word_frequency": 209, "example_front": "Ses remarques vétilleuses agacent.", "example_back": "His nitpicking remarks are irritating." }, { "front": "la cautèle", "back": "cunning / wariness", "level": "C2", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word_frequency": 210, "example_front": "Il agissait avec cautèle.", "example_back": "He acted warily." } ] }