French vocabulary

Home (like home page, foster home, etc.)

news

following day

recently

whereas, while

elsewhere

confessions

extract, like a confession, a plant

to assault

preliminary, introductory

burdened

walkout, strike

since, from

unwrap, open

sack (like Santa)

hogs, swine, obscene, smutty, lecherous

to treat

forget, miss, neglect

curtain, drape

blow one's mind, get off, orgasm

thingy, whatsit, what's-his-name, whatchamacalit

null, lousy, zero

over, above

give, keep, hold, abide

show

drawing, cartoon

burn

prosecutor (tribunal)

prosecutor

then

afterwords

home, residence, abode, dwelling

ashes

cement, bond

masonry

notwithstanding

dilapidated

legal remand

required

put, place

thus, thereby

resting place

gesture

right away

sales

burden, background

demonstrations

more (plus), greater

pluck, plucky, courage, determination

procession, corteges

calculate, compute, estimate

Confédération générale du travail

rate

increase

rising

substantially all

reach

yardstick

level

parades

literally flat note, effectively sour note, bad point

growing

deviation, spread, separate

employees

private

taces

railroadmen

lag

among

signs (as in protests)

homemade

person in his/her 50s, cinquantenaire

quinquagénaire

liar

lead

nevertheless

arduous

nurse

overwhelmed

exhausted

tide

oil slick, oil spill

report

subcontractors

clogged, plugged, sealed

hear, understand, mean

whose

partners

issue

size

collect, harvest, reap

print

send

career

browsing

a step

flap

Conféderation Française Démocratique du Travail (largest union by members)

ad, advertising

helmet, headset

podcast

offline

online

power

provide

contribute

plus

duration

device, provision, plan, scheme

early

escape

statutory age of retirement

postponement

the insureds

henceforth

revenge

on the other hand

start

as, as for, regarding

to upset

to get angry, upset

ludicrous

jump

jump for joy

hopping mad

remission

questioning

on the other hand

hope, wish

obstinant

to relax, soften

for its part

unemployment

then, therefore, thus

fill, fulfill

session

assert

grounds

submissive, kept down

submit, put down

Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire (French center-right party, Sarkozy's party, has National Assembly majority and Senate plurality)

numbers

calculate, compute

in fact (as a contradiction, "no, in fact")

by the way, to the point (<<je vais droit au fait>>)

look after, foster, maintain

give up, sell, concede

confusing, blurry, unfocused

move, budge

backward step, demotion

steel industry, welding

life expectancy

increase

future

avoid, dodge, evade

to discredit

so that

Partie Socialiste (largest center-left party)

blind

brain

support

benefit, payout

digest, accept, take in

crush, pound

roll out, unwind

prevent

whores

focus, point

shadow

willpower, volition

put forward, point out

setbacks, failures, defeats

show, display, post, put up (as in a sign)

stage, tabletop, flatbed

cloud 9, delirious, ecstatic (literally, to the angels)

return to

slip, slide (incl. as slipped into a conversation)

proclaim

bill, invoice, account

furnish, supply, provide

aside, stage whisper

respond, react

pull

eve, brink

annoying

pick off, shell

weekly

monthly

compliment, congratulate

be suitable for, appropriate

adapt, suit, fit

display

breast

lay claim to, assert

checkers

rant

cast (fishing), set in motion, launch

if not, or else

procrastinate, pussyfoot

suppress, quell

excessives

butterflies

attract

such, like

mislead

stray, get lost, drift

hold, keep

militia members

sack, bag

bad form

deposit, keep in

over there

adhere, stick

scaled

affiliations, connections

bed

make the bed

enflé, swollen

broken

lost, led astray

tuméfiés, swollen

roam

fall, decline

sleep, slumber

attached, bound

all over, everywhere, throughout

leap, hop, jump

rip up

linen

officer

move, dislodge

bitter

consideration

assault

simple assault

cunt

to bitch

despair, give up hope

bite (as in bite an apple, or take the bait)

eliminate (risk, rival), remove (obstacle), move

support, endorse, lean, press, rest

plot, conspiracy

somber

learn