Une si longue lettre ch 1-7 vocab

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**une concession**
a location
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une tapade
an enclosed plot of land
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un pagne
a wrap skirt
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**caillouteux**
stoney
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**jacasser**
to chat loudly and excitedly
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**jacassant(e)**
chatty
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**empoigner**
to seize
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**une suppuration**
a wound oozing pus
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**ténu**
tenuous
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**Égréner**
deseed
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**Inopinément**
unexpectedly
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**Un van**
winnowing basket
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**Une co-épouse**
a co-wife
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**Hétéroclite**
varied, heterogenous
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**Courroucé**
angry
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**Le nivellement**
the leveling
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**Une cola**
a kola nut
a kola nut
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**Bourdonnant(e)**
buzzing
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**Une natte**
a mat
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**La percale**
percale (a type of cotton fabric)
percale (a type of cotton fabric)
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**Le basin**
type of cotton fabric (différent de la percale)
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**Un griot**
griot, african story teller
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**Un laobé**
une personne qui chantent (?)
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**Les friperies**
second-hand clothes
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**Un cure-dent**
a toothpick
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désarroi
disarray, confusion
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enfourir
to bury
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féconder
fertilise
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le parcours
la route
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une veuve
a widow
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ténébreux
gloomy, morose
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**Piteux (piteusement)**
piteous (“arounsing pity”)
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**Au détriment**
to the detriment of
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**Farcir**
to put up with
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**une prouesse**
an achievement
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**Morosité**
gloominess
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**Reclus**
Secluded
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**Serviabilité**
helpfulness
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**Mauresque**
Moorish
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**Déferler**
To wash over (ex: the waves wash over the shore)
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**Ankyloser**
To stiffen up
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**Avoir la main-mise sur**
to have control over…
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**la veulerie**
cowardice
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**Hadja / El Hadji**
a title and prefix that is awarded to a person who has successfully completed the Hajj ("pilgrimage") to Mecca. Hadja is the title given to a woman who completed the Hajj
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**Un ébéniste**
A furniture-maker
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**Le clou**
The climax
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Adosser
to lean with your back against something
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**Enlisante**
sinking
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**Crûment**
bruntly, crudely
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**Un imam**
an imam (la personne qui récite les prières dans la mosque)
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**Relater**
raconter