_English V O C_ Flashcards
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céder au exigences
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to pander to (minority parties)
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a plan made in secret by a group of people to do smth illegal or harmful
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a plot
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promettre, mettre en gage
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to pledge
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une situation difficile
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a predicament
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trouble, opaque
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murky
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étoffer
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to beef up
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tripler
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to treble
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dépendre de
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to hinge on
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le changement est en train de se faire
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the change is afoot
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quinze jours
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a fortnight
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transporteur, société de transport routiers
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haulier
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noce, beuverie, gueuleton du crédit
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the credit binge
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s’entasser, s’accumuler
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to pile up
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s’arcbouter, se préparer à (for), (to do ) à faire
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to brace oneself (for, to)
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speculation de remaniement
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reshuffle speculation
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être silencieux comme une tombe
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to be quiet as a grave
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décisif, point de repère, étape importante
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landmark
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(fig) toile de fond
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a backdrop
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pessimiste
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downbeat
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commencer la semaine de maniere defensive
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to start the week on the back foot
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effet qui mine la confidence
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confidence-sapping effect
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matieres premieres en general plus faible
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commodities mostly weaker
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compare a la meme period l’annee passee
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compared with the same period last year
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= to downgrade forecasts
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to cut forecasts
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est revenu d'une semaine de vacances
has return from a week-long holiday
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# Voc
tomber en recession
to fall back towards recession
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# Voc
une serie de solides donnees
a stretch of strong data
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# Voc
des credits pourris jusqu'ici non-decouverts
as-yet undiscovered bad loans
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# Voc
balles en caoutchouc
rubber bullets
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# Voc
lots of noise but not much happening
all thunder, little rain (all fart, no poo)
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agacer, irriter
to irk
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maigres progres
scant progress
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# Voc
la pagaille, le desastre
the shambles
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fremir, vaciller
to quiver
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grotesque
ludicrous
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ne pas prendre position
to sit on the fence
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pot d'echappement
exhaust pipe
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etre en voie de guerison
to be on the mend
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le desaccord / rupture gouvernement a fait surface apres que
the government rift surfaced after
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fair la lumiere sur qqch
to shed light on smth (shed/shed/shed/)
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entraver la capacite a faire
to hamper the ability to do
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confinement
containment
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couts des contentieux
litigation costs
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a 'crap' deal (unfair, mean)
a shabby deal
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semer la pagaille
to sow mayhem
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a 'defensive wall', un rempart
a bulwark
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se meler a, se confondre a
to mingle with
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chient errant
stray dog
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firme meurtrie, abimee
battered firm
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le deces, la fin/mort de l'euro
the demise of the euro
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rivalisant pour
vying for
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boue
mud
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l'humeur est abattue
the mood is despondent
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envoyer des secousses a travers le monde
tremble in a person's voice
sudden feeling of fear or excitement
to send tremors round the world
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derailler
to go haywire
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attitude controller
controlled demeanour
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une strategie confuse
a muddled strategy
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fil, laine (used in production of textile)
yarn
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vetement, habit
garment
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accorder, octroyer une distinction honorific
to bestow a award
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terminer le ventre en-dessus
to go belly-up
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elle a ecrit une tartine
she wrote reams about it
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jurer de faire
to vow to do
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a large amount of smth
a raft of smth
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etre decourageant
to be daunting
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l'histoire est jongee de
history is littered with
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lugubres, lamentable perspectives
dismal outlook
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le succes depend de la possibility d'assurer
success hinges on securing
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les tensions relatives a cette trx ont bouillonee
tensions over the deal have been simmering
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une reaction violente contre qqch
a backlash against smth
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etre contredit par les faits
to be belied by the facts
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renoncer a, cede a, abandonner / voluntarily cease to keep or claim
to relinquish
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speak or act in an evasive way / se derober
to prevaricate
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to put off doing smth
to procrastinate
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refuser (avec mepris) un deal
to spurn a deal
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reduire, ecourter, mettre en entrave
to curtail
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flechir, faiblir
to falter
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faire bouger, osciller, trembler
to wobble
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a la veille de
on the eve of
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to support/assist smth that would otherwise fall or decline
to prop up a curncy
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announcer, proclamer
to herald
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astucieux, fute, ruse
shrewd
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entraver, freiner
to hinder
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reduire l'exposition
to pare exposure
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ressaisis-toi
get a grip on yourself
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tax, impot
levy
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designer pour financer
earmarked to fund
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s'attarder, persister, subsister
to linger
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contrefacon
forgery
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amis et ennemis
friends and foes
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veritablement, categoriquement, carrement, effrayant, terrifian
downright scary
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deroutant
unnerving
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imitateur
copycat
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consolation, reconfort (consoler de)
solace
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sous serment
under oath
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diffuser, propager
disseminate
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sursis, repit (cancellation or postponement of an undesirable event
a reprieve
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vairon, menu fretin
a minnow
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proposition aller-retour
back-and-forth proposal
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une serie de
a string of
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ceder a (satisfy), se livrer a , se laisser tenter
to indulge
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tout sert (useful experience, material knowledge)
it's all grist to the mill
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malheur, great sorrow or distress
woe
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commerages sur
the gossip about
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mettre a la porte (or pillage)
to sack
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vaciller autour de
to hover around
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a debt that makes very weak or infirm
a debilitating debt
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les regulateurs ont donne leur ok
regulators gave the go-ahead
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un nombre etonnament haut
a startlingly high number
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marchander sur la valeur, hv long complicated dispute or argument
to wrangle over the value
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enigm
conundrum
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fourbe, astucieux, ruse plan
a cunning plan
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braconer, debaucher
to poach
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conclure, terminate
to wrap up
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s'eclipser, secher
to bunk off
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descendre, decliner
to ebb
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aller faire la noce
to go on binge
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racoler la clientele
to tout for business
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forger un mot
to coin a word
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le crash economic
the economic meltdown
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la signature du deal
the signing of the deal
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se depecher de faire
to scramble to do
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perturber, bouleverser, interrompre
to disrupt
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dans une confusion totale
in total disarray
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reduire considerablement (sacrifice)
to slash
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c une de mes principales priorites
it's very high on my agenda
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a principle or belief / doctrine
a tenet
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trechucher sur
to stumble on/over
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asian shares 'aller un peu plus haut'
asian shares inched up
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the nikkei was stable
the nikkei was steady
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l'optimisme a ete nourri par
optimism was fueled by
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detourner qn de
to lure somebody away
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renverser, s'effondrer
to topple
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pauvre, infortune, malheureux
hapless
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pousser a la hausse
to lift
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to limit gains
to keep gain in check
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a la suite d'une relaxation de mauvaises news
amid an easing in the flow of negative news
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battre / beat
to trump
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qui se defait, demele, denou
unraveling
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a large nb or quantity of smth
a slew of
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sursit, repit, cancellation or portponement of an undesirable event
a reprieve
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comprehensif, compastissant
sympathetic
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l'organisme de surveillance
the watchdog
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le bouc emissaire
the scapegoat
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bouleversement, remu-menage politic
political upheaval
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to make an emotional appeal / plaider, supplier
to plead
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faire sortir qn/qch de
to flush smbody smth out of
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imposant, excellent example
towering example
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amasser
to rake in
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freiner brusquement
to screech to a halt
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signe avant-coureur
harbinger
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Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven liquidity
patchy liquidity
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person: disloyal; condition: dangerous
treacherous
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stop in war; between people, groups; treve
truce
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careful, cautious, prudent
canny
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risible
ludicrous
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inclined to silence; reserved in speech, reluctant to join in conversation
taciturn [ta ssi turn]
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agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent
linient [li ni ent]
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going rapidly over smth, without noticing details; hastly; superficial; synonyms: brief, careless, fast, quick, random
cursory [coeur sorry]
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to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do smth specificed (usually follwed by 'at')
to balk [bok]at smth (eg, he balked at making the speech)
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to go around or bypass
circumvent [sir cum vent], eg: to circumvent a lake / the real issue
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to abrogate; annul; revoke, repeal
to rescind [raie sind]
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filled, laden; syn: heavy, lated
fraught, ex: ships fraught with prevcious wares
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make peace with a person or group.
to mend fences
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full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited (syn: active, alive, bubbly, courageous, difficult, enthusiastic
feisty
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sharpness, harshness, bitterness of nature, speech; syn: animosity, antipahty, bitterness, malice, sarcasm
acrimony
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first in place, order, rank; syn: arch, champion, front, leading
foremost
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barely sufficient or adequate
scant (eg, scant evidence)
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to study or ruminate; ponder; syn: consider, contemplate, examine
to mull
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to poke, stir up and feed (a fire)
to stoke (eg, to stoke demand)
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to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate; syn: ease, pacify, allay
to alleviate (eg, to alleviate pain, sorrow)
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to feed or fill to satiety; sate; syn: excess, surplus, deluge
glut (ex to glut the appetite)
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a house, flat, or other place of residence.
dwelling
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to argue about petty and trivial matters; of water: to flow or fall with a gentle repetitive noise
to bicker
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to steal from; to entice away from another; to indulge oneself by taking from, especially in order to eat
to raid (eg, large co are raiding key personnel from smaller co)
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that has remained undecided for long; awaiting decision or settlement; unfinished
long-pending
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something that obstructs or hinders progress
obstacleS
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soaked, thoroughly wet, sodden; syn: saturated, soft
soggy (eg, soggy economic data)
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a sense that: i) bit or chew on by persistent biting; to trouble or torment by constant annoyance, worry
a gnawing sense [no wing; silent 'g']
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[le dollar a ete] pousse vers le haut
pumped up
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short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose as to buy smth, deliver a package, often for someone else
to run some errands
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to render (water, wine, ...) turbid (cloudy/trouble) by stirring up sediment; syn: agitate, annoy, bother, disquiet, disturb; remuer
to roil
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courageux
brave
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smallness of quantity; scarcity
paucity (eg: a country with a paucity of resources; paucity of shoppers)
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commentaire desobligeant/denigrant, peu flatteur
a derogative comment
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indiquer ... comme reason de
to point to ... as a reason to (ex: to point at rising wages as a reason to increase rates)
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emotionally shake / secouer (fig); faire un bruit de ferraille
to rattle (fiancial market)
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to evade (work, duty, responsibility)
to shirk ( the shirk the role executioner)
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les chances se sont estompee
chances dimmed (following the No vote)
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les stocks sont en baisse / de moins en moins fort
stocks (of bills) are dwindling
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augmenter la pression (fig)
to ratchet up pressure
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etre distant (esp in feeling or interest)
to be aloof
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To feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent
to fret (eg, fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help)
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person who creates or spread alarming news
fearmonger
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heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced, unsymmetrical
lopsided
