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8: L'Eau Flashcards

1
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Une digue

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A dyke

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La pollution

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Pollution

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La salinite’

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Salinity

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Un ecosysteme

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An ecosystem

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Une station balneaire

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Seaside resort

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Un mare’cage

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Marsh, swamp

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Un moustique

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A mosquito

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Un fond marin

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Sea bottom

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Une e’tendue d’eau

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A stretch of water

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Polluer

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Pollute

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De’polluer

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To clean up, decontaminate

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Une baie

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A bay

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13
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Un ilot

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A small island

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14
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Une ile

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An island

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Une algue

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Seaweed, algae

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16
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Le systeme hydraulique

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Hydraulic

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17
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Le drainage

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Drainage

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Un marais

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Marsh, swamp

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19
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Un ouragan

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Hurricane

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Un cyclon

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Cyclone

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21
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Une pe’ninsule

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A peninsula

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22
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Inonder

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To flood

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23
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La se’cheresse

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The drought

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24
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La boue

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The mud, sludge

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Se rendre

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To go, to visit; to yield, to surrender

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S’enfoncer

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To sink

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27
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Interminable

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Never-ending

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28
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La canne a’ sucre

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Sugarcane

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29
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Grouiller

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To swarm, mill about

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30
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Paradisiaque

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Heavenly, idyllic

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Un patrimonie

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Estate, property; inheritance

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32
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Ceinturer

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Grasp around the waist; encircle, surround

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Un pecheur, une pecheuse

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Fisherman, fisher woman

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Pecheur, pecheresse

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Sinner

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S’affairer

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To be busy, bustle about

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36
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Trompeur

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Deceptive, misleading

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Une nuisance

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A pollutant; a harmful substance

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38
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Un ouvrage

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A work, a result

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39
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Un chapelet

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Rosary, string, chain, series

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40
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S’adonner

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Devote yourself, dedicate yourself

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41
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De’gringoler

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Tumble down crash down; collapse

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42
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Asphyxier

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To suffocate

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43
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Prolife’rer

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Multiply, proliferate

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Une villegiature

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Vacation, holiday in the country, at the ocean

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Assecher

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To dry up, drain

46
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Un requiem

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A mass for the dead

47
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Se fracasser

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To smash, shatter

48
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De’border

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Overflow, burst its banks

49
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Noyer

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To drown

50
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De’fricher

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To clear (land); to prepare, ready

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Pallier

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To overcome, get around; cover up, gloss over

52
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Torrentiel

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Torrential

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Friand (adj)

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Lover, gourmand, be fond of

54
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Un debordement

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An overflowing, a flood; an excess

55
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Invoquer

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Appeal to, call upon

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Mettre en peril

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Put in danger

57
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De fil en aiguille

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One thing leading to another

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En raison de

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On account of, because of

59
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La mise en place

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Arrangement, positioning, setting up

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La mise en oeuvre

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The implementation; application

61
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Tant pis

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Too bad

62
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Un nuage

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A cloud

63
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Un gisement

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Deposit; target market

64
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Ecologique

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Environmental, ecological

65
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Un robinet

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A faucet

66
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Une coulee’ d’eau

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Flow of water

67
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Un barrage

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Damn, barricade

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Avoir soif

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To be thirsty

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Un bien

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Goods, possession, property

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Une directive

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An order, command, instruction

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Fameux

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Famous

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Commercialisable

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Marketable

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Gerable

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Manageable, controllable

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Une consommation

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Consumption, use; intake; drink

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Un particulier

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Private individual; private seller

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Un conflit

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A conflict, a dispute

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D’abord

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First of all,

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A’ sa guise

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As you please

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D’ailleurs

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Incidentally, by the way

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Effectivement

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Indeed, actually

81
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Bien entendu

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Of course, naturally

82
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Donner lieu a’

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Give rise to, lead to, produce

83
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Mettre en place

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Implement

84
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E’touffer

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Suffocate

85
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Un troupeau de lamantins

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A group of manatees

86
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Surtout

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Especially

87
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Servir de

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To be used as

88
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Une approbation

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Approval, agreement

89
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Filet

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Net

90
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Les herbiers

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Sea grass bed; herbarium

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S’ecouler

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To flow (liquid); to pass, elapse (time)

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De’faire

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Undo, dismantle

93
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Un krash immobilier

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Real estate crash

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Noyer

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To sink

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Engrais n.m.

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Fertilizer

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E’pouvantable

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Terrible, horrendous, appalling

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Stocker ,verb

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To store, hoard

98
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En attendant

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Meanwhile

99
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En attendant que

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Until such time as

100
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S’affronter

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Fight each other; come face to face

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Une plaie

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Wound; plague

102
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La peste

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The plague

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Un lacher

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The release

104
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Reprendre

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To pick up again

105
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Un sommaire

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DL 2018 (10 decks)

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