In this Glossary I will put some vocabulary words that I don't know the meaning
Armchair
Noun
A large, comfortable chair with side supports for a person's arms.
Example: You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable ARMCHAIR.
en: Fauteuil
Breakdown
Noun
A mechanical failure.
Example: My car had been breakdown near circle
en: Panne
Burden
Noun
A load, typically a heavy one.
Example: The English Crown was trapped at every stage by the gentry, to the point where the king was beheaded and a military dictatorship established (with, for the first time, a standing army, accompanied by a five - fold increase in the tax BURDEN).
en: Charge
Casualty
Noun
A person killed or injured in a war or accident.
Example: The judge, Mr Justice Caulfield, described The Fox as "a CASUALTY" of evil pornographers and went on to say: "I am satisfied that you are a decadent advertisement for the evil pornographers.
en: Victime
Concerned
Adjective
worried, troubled, or anxious.
Example: Suppliers are CONCERNED about payment of debt of company and availability of liquidity.
en: Préoccupé
Desecrate
Verb
Spoil (something which is valued or respected)
Example: The vandals were accused of desecrating graves.
en: Profaner
goatee
Noun
A small pointed beard.
Example: He had a little goatee under his chin and a big grin.
en: barbiche
Income
Noun
Money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
Example: From this testing, all alternatives were eliminated except the one that proposes that the landscape architect expand his business holdings so as to provide additional INCOME beyond just design fees and also to provide a vehicle for reducing his burden of overhead costs.
en: Revenu
Loan
Noun
A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.
Example: Those of the royal subjects who "may and will gladly strain themselves" were asked to contribute to a LOAN, which would be repaid within two years. In spite of some grumbling in London, the LOAN was a triumphant success, bringing in £112,000.
en: Prêt
Meekly
Adverb
In a quiet, gentle, and submissive manner.
Example: This was in itself a striking commentary on what had already been done: Liberal Unionists who had resisted amalgamation under Balfour and Acland - Hood in 1911 acquiesced MEEKLY under Law and Steel
en: Docilement
Passerby
Noun
A person who happens to be going past something, especially on foot.
Example: Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a PASSERBY as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.
en: Passant
Riddle
Noun
A question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning.
Example: Oedipus, who solved the RIDDLE of the Sphinx, murdered his father and married his mother. This is to say that the man who solves the RIDDLE of nature must also violate the most sacred natural law, and even that wisdom as such is a crime against nature.
en: énigme
Sleepwalk
Verb
Walk around and sometimes perform other actions while asleep.
Example: I was sleepwalking through my life.
en: Somnambulisme
Spokesperson
Noun
A Spokesperson is a person who is chosen to speak officially for a group or organization
Example: There is often a SPOKESPERSON for the family, but the views and opinions should be checked out with their partner and the children.
en: Porte-parole
Squint
Verb
A permanent deviation in the direction of the gaze of one eye.
Example: Past medical history: Correction of SQUINT as a child Repair of left inguinal hernia during his 20's He has never had an MI, CVA, or been diagnosed with diabetes, asthma, hypertension or high cholesterol.
en: Strabisme
suburb
Noun
an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
Example: Seven years later Agate reported on the opening of a new cinema of "almost Babylonish magnificence" in the London SUBURB of Brixton
en: Banlieue
Tuiton fees
Noun
Money that a student pays to a university for their teaching
Example: Income from research grants, tuition fees and lodging charges was 104 million.
en: Frais de scolarité
Windfarm
Noun
An area of land with a cluster of wind turbines for driving electrical generators.
Example: In the areas around my constituency, it is only possible to build a wind farm in the summer. One such renewable source of energy which has been able to take advantage of that important act is the wind farm.
