English Vocabulary Derived from French: List 2

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  1. bureau
    furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
  2. tournament
    a competition in which contestants play a series of games
  3. prairie
    a treeless grassy plain
  4. technique
    a practical method or art applied to some particular task
  5. musket
    a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel
  6. optimism
    the hopeful feeling that all is going to turn out well
  7. gorgeous
    dazzlingly beautiful
  8. regime
    the governing authority of a political unit
  9. renaissance
    a period of renewed activity and prominence
  10. bachelor
    a man who has never been married
  11. homage
    respectful deference
  12. recipient
    a person to whom something is sent, given, or awarded
  13. purify
    distill or remove contaminants from
  14. debut
    appear for the first time in public
  15. heritage
    practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
  16. plateau
    a relatively flat raised area of land
  17. ballet
    a theatrical performance of a story by trained dancers
  18. gazette
    a newspaper or official journal
  19. cadet
    a military trainee (as at a military academy)
  20. ambulance
    a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals
Created on Fri May 13 10:00:06 EDT 2022 (updated Tue Aug 02 09:12:50 EDT 2022)

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