Grade 12 French Exam

Vocab

Adorable

Adorable

Accrocher

To hang onto

Affamer

To starve/famish

Ailleurs

Elsewhere

Avoir du bon

To have good/ not all that bad

Avoir raison

To be right/ to be not all that bad

C’est tous du pareil au meme

It’s all the same

Chouette

Neat/cool

Fichu

Ruined/ wrecked

Garer

To park

Honte

Shame/disgrace

La vie quotidienne

Daily life

Lacher

To let go of

Langoustes

Lobsters

Le charcutier

Pork butcher

Le fillet a provisions

Mesh bag

Malin

Smart/clever

Martyriser

To torment

Ne se laisser pas faire

Don’t let yourself be pushed around

Prevenir

To warn

Radin

Cheap

Recre

Recreation/recces

Remuer

To move/wiggle

Rigoler

to laugh

Se laisser rouler

To be taken in/ fooled

Un grosse

A kid

Un guignol

A pupet/clown/fool

Un merlan

Whiting/fish

une baffe

A slap

Une sole

sole/fish

Affolee

Distraught/panic

Avec ivresse

Intoxicated

Compromettre

To compromise

Dechirer

To tear/rip

Durer

To last

Ennuyeux/Ennuyeuse

Boring

Emu

Moved/emotional

Fausse

False/fake

Fiacre

Horse drawn carriage

Fourrures

Fur coat

Grelotter

To shiver

Inquiete

To worry

La bonne

Maid/servant

La femme de menage

The cleaning lady

La laideur

Ugliness

La larme

a tear

La parrure

a necklace

La prefecture de police

Police station

La riviere de diamants

A river of diamonds (diamond necklace)

Les bijoux

Jewellery

Les delicatesses

Fine things

Le collier

A necklace

Le joailler

The jeweller

Le logement

Housing

Le sou

Cent/penny

Les meubles

Furniture

Mener

To lead/bring along

Mettre la main a la pate

To join/pitch in

Miserable

Miserable

Oter

To remove/take off

Renvoyer

To dismiss

S’ecrier

To cry out/shout

S’enfuir

To run away/escape

Souffrir

To suffer

Tomber de haut

To be shocked

Vaisselles

Dishes/crockery

Valoir

To be worth

Valser

To waltz

Vient de

to come from

En avoir assez

somebody having enough

Faire une drole de tete

To make a funny face

Pousser un cri

To cry out/shout

S’attabler

to sit down to eat

bati

assembly/built

Bourdonner

a buzz/a ring

Brusquement

abruptly/suddenly

Calleux

Calloused

Courant

common/standard

dechiqueter

to shred/rip apart

hors d’haleine

out of breath

houspiller

to reprimand/scold

la defaite

defeat

le combine

combined

le filet

the net

le fracas

the crash

le vestiaire

locker room

mouser

to build (excitement)

paisible

calm/peaceful

rude

hard/tough

rugir

to roar

se chamailler

to squabble/fight

se cogner

to bang/knock

s’ecrouler

to collapse/fall down

renouveler

to freshen/renew

s’elancer

to launch yourself forward

a bout de force

exhausted

ardu

hard

parvenir

to reach/attain (for a goal)

l’aube

dawn

une seance

session/training session