madame b, i love you so much, i'll give you a dictionary with no chipin at all :
http://dictionary.reference.com/ you may also be interested in a french / english dictionary :
http://dictionnaire.mediadico.com/tr...ncais-anglais/
i am rather tempted to make this thread into an ebook as well, not for any vocabularly-building exercises but rather to archive it for posterity, to cheer me up when i'm feeling sad, and for my own continued personal amusement. if i do that i will be sure to upload the ebook here so that you can also benefit from it.