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144 VOCABULARY.<br />
d.<br />
delay le delai<br />
to repeat re"pe"ter<br />
to<br />
signify, vouloir dire<br />
Herodotus He"rodote<br />
it is no use talking il n'y<br />
a dire<br />
pas<br />
XL. b.<br />
le devoir (ditty lesson)<br />
a 1'heure qu'il est just now<br />
publier to publish<br />
quoi que whatever<br />
(quoique 141. 3)<br />
faire (une marchandise) to<br />
charge<br />
le singe (L. simius) mon-<br />
Jcey , ape<br />
C. avez-vous bientot fait?<br />
have you done*<br />
1'acier,<br />
ra. steel<br />
d.<br />
all day long toute lajournee<br />
to do one's best faire de son<br />
mieux<br />
nothing but, ne . . . que<br />
to amuse one's self s'amuser<br />
what is that to me qu'estce<br />
que cela me fait?<br />
then, alors<br />
XLL d.<br />
to acquaint one with . . .<br />
faire part de . . . a qqn,<br />
envy envie, f.<br />
pity pitie" f.<br />
engagement un engagement<br />
Hamburg Hambourg<br />
to fall down dead tomber<br />
raide mort<br />
to be very dainty faire bien<br />
le (la) difficile<br />
very much tres (never tres<br />
beaucoup)<br />
XLIL b.<br />
faculty of law la faculte<br />
de droit<br />
loss la perte<br />
ill-timed inopportun, e<br />
speculation la speculation<br />
XLII. d.<br />
to be anything but n'etre<br />
rien moins que<br />
to get up se lever<br />
Algiers Alger<br />
afternoon apres-midi,<br />
XLIV. b.<br />
la me sure measure<br />
a que inproportion as<br />
un habillement com pie t a<br />
suit of clothing<br />
le gilet waistcoat<br />
le pantalon trowsers<br />
demander qqn. ( 130. a)<br />
se faire to take place<br />
il se fait nuit it is getting<br />
dark<br />
se faire un plaisir de to<br />
afford one pleasure<br />
C. se faire punir to get punished<br />
NB. For one in the 2* sen-<br />
tence see 193. c.<br />
pattern un e"chantillon<br />
according to fashion a la<br />
mode<br />
ready made tout fait, confectionne"<br />
tight elroit<br />
XLV. b.<br />
particulier particular , peculiar<br />
le petit -maitre fop<br />
le sourire, le souris ( 115)<br />
la racine carre"e (L. quadratus)<br />
square root<br />
la confiture preserve<br />
le confiseur confectioner<br />
la deconfiture discomfiture<br />
de bon coBur heartily<br />
le chalet Swiss cottage<br />
le patre herdsman<br />
(le pasteur herdsman, pas-<br />
tor, minister)<br />
la vache cow<br />
C.<br />
un homme seul ( 175)<br />
la besogne work, job<br />
d.<br />
raspberry la framboise<br />
strawberry la fraise<br />
empty (vide) fig. vain<br />
to expose to ridicule (see a)<br />
preter a rire<br />
most le plus<br />
XLYI. b.<br />
e pique, epic<br />
ensemble (L. in simul) to-<br />
ff ether<br />
encore un coup another glass<br />
verser to pour out (to shed}<br />
etancher to quench, to slake<br />
la faute d'orthographe mis<br />
spelling<br />
un homme de bien righteous<br />
man<br />
un homme de rien a nobody<br />
encore (in poetry *encor')<br />
again, another<br />
d.<br />
absurd ( 175) plaisant<br />
to be hushed se taire<br />
out of the hollow dans le<br />
creux<br />
Diogenes Diogene
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