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Advertisement

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A way of promoting products.

French: Avertissement/ attention

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Agenda

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An underlying motivation or plan

French: Agenda/horaire, cahier avec l’horaire dedans

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Ailment

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A sickness or physical condition

French: Aliment /nourriture, nutriment

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Alley

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A narrow corridor or passageway or big main street

French: Allée/Rangée dans un magasin

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Animator

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Creative designer (animation). Ex: Pixel
French: animateur/ quelqu'un qui anime un show à la télé
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Compose

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(create – music) V. to get self control, gère toé!

French: Composer/faire avec quelque chose

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Balance

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Equilibrium

French: Balance/pèse personne

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Benefit

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Advantage

French: bénéfice/avantage ou adj pour dire de qqch qui amasse des fonds (souper bénéfice)

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Confidence

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Adjective to describe assurance (confiance in French)

French: Confidence/un petit secret

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Critic

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A person who evaluates movies, books etc. - evaluator. We don’t say I’m gonna give you a critic. We say : I’m gonna be critical
French: Critique/verbe ou nom

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Deceive

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To trick (make somebody believes something that’s not true)
French: Décevoir
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Delay

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To put off

French: délais

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Facility

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A complex such as a sports complex or community center. (A place like a sport facility, community facility, a place where you go and do things)
French: Facilité/qqch qui est facile à faire ou qqn qui fait qqch facilement

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Famous

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Well known around the world

French: Fameux/qqch de vrm pas pire

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Furnish

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To fill a house or room with furniture(ex: a room is empty, you put furnitures in the room)
French: Fournir, fourniture/objets utilisés pour un bureau ou à l’école (fournitures scolaires)

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Habitually

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Usually

French: habituellement

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Hazard

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A danger (problems or injury)
French: Hasard/qqch qui arrive par chance
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Important

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Significant, something that needs to been done (something with high value) On ne va pas dire: I have an important amount of money
French: important/ on utilise parfois ce mot pour parler de la grosseur de qqch, ex importante somme d’argent ce qu’on ne fait pas en anglais

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Inhabited

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Someone lives there

French: inhabité/personne ne vit là

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Interesting

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Holds our interest
French: intéressant/on utilise parfois ce mot pour parler de la grosseur de qqch, ex somme d’argent intéressante ce qu’on ne fait pas en anglais

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Manifestation

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An expression of something unseen

French: Manifestation/regroupement pour protester contre qqch

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Mark

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Grades, a spot (mark on your jacket), a legacy (héritage)

French: Marque/compagnie, marque de vêtement

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Place

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V. to put somewhere, to be able to situate a person in memory (Ex: to place the cup on the table. Ex: I can’t place you)
French: Place/un endroit

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Publicity

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Usually in a negative sense (pertaining to bad publicity and tarnishing reputation.
French: Publicité /faire la promotion d’une marque

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Quit

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To terminate a job or responsibility and not going back (ex: he quits smoking) We don’t quit a person. We don’t quit a marriage and we don’t quit our children. We leave a person.
French: quitter/partir (peut être définitif ou non) en français on peut quitter une personne, mais pas en Anglais

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Responsible

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Adjective only (not a noun) to describe a person – a quality. He’s a responsible person. 
French: Responsable/peut aussi référer à un poste, ex responsable des ventes