201 Vocabulaire Essentiel Flashcards
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Certes
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Of course; indeed
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Élu(e)
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Elected
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Un dédale
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A maze
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Être bien loti(e)
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To be fortunate
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Côtoyer
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To rub shoulders with
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Un caniche
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Poodle
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Un homme d’affaire
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A businessman
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Guindé(e)
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Stiff; unnatural
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Opérer
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To effect; bring about
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La fumée
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Smoke
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Un défilé
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A parade
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Branché(e)
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Cool; trendy
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Un préfet
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A prefect
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Limitrophe
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Bordering
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Impensable
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Unthinkable
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Inconvenant
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Improper
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Balnéaire
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Seaside
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Une ébauche
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A draft
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Entres autres
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Amongst other things
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Trôner
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To sit enthroned; imposingly
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Ériger
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To erect; raise
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À ce propos
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In this respect
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Pompeusement
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Pompously
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Déboulonner
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To unbolt; take down (a statue)
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En tenue de
Dressed as, clad in
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Histoire de
As a way to..., just to...
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Un coup d'éclat
To pull off a coup
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Un cabestan
A capstan
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Une poulie
A pulley
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Du fumier
Manure
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Le démantèlement
The dismantling (of something)
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Une traite
An instalment; payment
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Saisi
Seized
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Un soulèvement
An uprising; revolt
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Les agapes
A feast
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S'attabler
To sit down at the table
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Batailler
To fight, to battle
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Primer
To award a prize to
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Ripailler
To have a feast
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Un convive
A guest (at a meal)
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À la rescousse
To the rescue
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La tambouille
Grub
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Épauler
To second, assist, support someone
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En guise de
By way of
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Un brochet
A pike
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De la volaille
Poultry
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Farci
Stuffed
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poêlée
Pan-fried
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Un cèpe
A cep (mushroom)
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Une nappe
Tablecloth
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Dépêché
Dispatched
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Récidiver
To commit a second, subsequent offence
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Proférer
To utter
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Approvisionner
To supply; provide with
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Rayonner
To spread around, radiate from
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La halle
A (covered) market
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Un puits
A well
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Un(e) pensionnaire
A boarder
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Céder
To cede, let someone have something
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Recouvrer
To recover, regain
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Opiniâtre
Stubborn, obstinate
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Les badauds
Onlookers, strollers
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Un caviste
A wine seller, cellarman
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Le terroir
The region, soil
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Un ostréiculteur
An oyster farmer
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Affamé(e)
Starving
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Éprouvante
Gruelling
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L'enceinte
The enclosure
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Un chapelet
A rosary, a string
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Une guinguette
An open-air cafe (with dance floor)
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Avoir l'embarras du choix
To be spoilt for choice
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Un auvent
A canopy
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Un pilier
A pillar, cornerstone, symbol
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Une façade
The facade, front of
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Prospère
Flourishing, striving, prosperous
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S'étioler
To decline, to deteriorate
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Un cloaque
Cesspit, cesspool, cloaca
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Atteindre des sommets
To rise to historic heights
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S'efforcer
To try hard to do something
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Redouter
To dread
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L'embourgeoisement
Gentrification
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Désuet
Old-fashioned, outmoded
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Un recoin
Corner, nook, recess
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Un chardon
A thistle
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Flâner
To stroll, amble
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Dériver
To drift
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Enfumé
Smoky
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Emprunter
To borrow
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Une épicerie
A grocery store
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(Être) encarté
To be a card carrying member of something
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Prier qqn de + infinitive
To ask, request someone to do something
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Une facette
Facet, side, aspect
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La quintessence de qqch
Epitome, quintessence, very essence of something
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Prisé
(Highly) valued for something
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Éponyme
Eponymous (of the same name)
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Ravir
To delight
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Un cadenas
A padlock
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Valoir le détour
To be worth the detour
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Bondé
Packed, jam-packed
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S'imprégner de qqch
To become immersed, imbued with
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En matière de
As regards to something
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Deçu
Disappointed
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S'assurer de qqch
To make sure of something
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Couper le souffle
To be breathtaking
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D'emblée
Straight away, right away, instantly
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S'imposer
To be necessary, called for
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Haut de gamme
Upmarket, top of the range
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Regorger
To overflow with, to abound with
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S'il en est
If any, if ever there were one
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Un fleuron
A jewel
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Entretenir
To maintain, foster
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Pointu
(Very) narrowly specialised, targeted
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Cossu
Affluent, well off, wealthy
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Embaumer
To be fragrant, heavy with the scent of
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Incarner
To embody, to personify
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Des escarpins
Pumps
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S'encanailler
To loosen up, slum it, mix with the riff-raff
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S'accouder
To lean (ones elbows) on something
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Jaser
To gossip, chatter
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Une cohue
Crowd, throng
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Une diligence
Stagecoach
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Pesamment
Heavily
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Attelé
Harnessed
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Une bâche
A canvas sheet
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Broyer
To crush, grind, mill
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La chaussée
Roadway, road surface
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Un briquet
Lighter
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Se ruer
To rush, dash, charge
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Un vacarme
Din
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Décacheter
To open, unseal, break open
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Puéril
Childlike, infantile
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Gémir
To moan
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Prodigue
Slender, spend thrift, extravagant, profligate
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Vertueux
Virtuous, righteous, honourable
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Fougueux
Spirited, fiery, impetuous
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Un abîme
An abyss
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La Patrie
Homeland, motherland
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Vénérer
To worship, revere
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Garder rancune à qqn
To bear, harbour a grudge against sb.
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Rompre le silence
To break the silence
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Une farce
Joke, prank, trick
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Méconnu
Little-known
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Les abords (m)
Surroundings
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L'essor
Rise, rapid growth, expansion
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À l'instar de qqch
Like somebody, following the example of somebody
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Une folie
Folly
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Le socle
Base
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Une frise
Frieze
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Voûté
Arched, vaulted
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Des amants
Lovers
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Apaisant
Soothing, calming
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La ferronerie
Wrought-iron, iron work
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Déboucher sur qqch
To lead to, open into
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L'ascension (f)
Climb, ascent
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Net
Clear, distinct, definite
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L'Orée (f)
Cusp, edge, beginning
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Malfamé
Disreputable, of ill repute
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Un fléau
Plague
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Un fêtard
Party-goer
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La crasse
Filth, squalor
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Une bulle
Bubble
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Le militantisme
Militantism, activism
163
Une manif
Demo
