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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Saucer To mop up the sauce from your plate with a piece of bread French action food
Retrouvailles Lit. 'rediscovery'; a reunion (e.g., with loved ones after a long time apart). French friends family
Se défouler Let off steam to release or get rid of excess energy French energy stress
Énouement The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. French awareness philosophy
Bon vivant Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. French positive happiness
Spleen Melancholy without apparent cause French feeling
Nostalgie de la boue A yearning for degradation, depravity, or other crude/base aspects of life, literally "a yearning for mud" French feeling
Sortable adj. Someone you can take out without fear of being embarrassed, usually used to refer to friends or family members. e.g. "Elle n'est pas sortable." French friends interaction society
Décidément When coincidences occur or when events repeat themselves by chance (for example, when you run into the same person many times in one week) French surprise interaction fate
Avoir la molle A listless unwillingness to do any work French adverse
Débrouillardise Quality of someone who is resourceful and lives with the ability to creatively improvise; someone who can make do and solve problems without much French creative
Adroit Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. French attribute
Arlésienne Used to describe people who are at the centre of a conversation/situation/problem but can’t be found anywhere French society interaction
Seigneur-terrasse Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café French funny life
L'appel du vide Describes the instinctive urge to jump from high places French habits physical
Mitonner Cooking with passion French food love beauty
Chantepleurer Singng and crying simultaneously French action
La douleur exquise The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have French feeling awareness love
Sous-entendu Don't listen to what you heard. Listen for the message embedded. French awareness reflection
Gourmand One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. French food attribute
L'esprit de l'escalier Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. French friends interaction
Être dépaysé To be in an environment you're not used to French change society awareness
Débrouille May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have French creative
Dépaysement The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to French feeling awareness change
Flâner verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. French explore travel




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