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Bordeaux AF Flashcards

1
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Peer group

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Une groupe de pair

Un tribu de pair (used now)

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Get bogged down, get stuck

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Enliser

S’enliser sink inti, get stuck, get bogged down

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Accentuate, highlight, enhance

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Valoriser

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Asylum seeker

Grant ..

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Demandeur d’asile

Accorder l’asile politique à qqn

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5
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Clink (glasses), bump into one another,

Clash fig

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S’entrechoquer

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Discount v, mark down v

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Démarquer

Démarque adj cut-price, unmarked

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7
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Shuffle the cards

Cut the deck

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Battre les cartes

Couper les cartes

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Wanting to sit down

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Avoir envie de s’asseoir

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10
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Words for work in order less hard to hardest

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Glander, y aller à reculons, bosser, bûcher, ramer, en baver,
en suer, trimer

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Accommodation, housing

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Logement m

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Dropout

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Marginal m
Exclus m
Bef: un gueux, un paumé

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13
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Mind intellect

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Esprit m

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14
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Youth n

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La jeunesse

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15
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Local

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Du terroir

Cuisine du terroir, accent du terroir, écrivain du terroir

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Tank ( army)

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Char m

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Differentiate yr self, distance yr self, distinguish yr self

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Se démarquer ( être different de)

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20
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Place where you chuck things like keys, wallet

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Un vide-poches

Jfr un fourre-tout

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21
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Starboard, port side

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Tribord ( r droite!), bâbord

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22
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Public holidays

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Lej jours de feries

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23
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Revenue and costs

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Les recettes et les dépenses

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24
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Two reasons for the crisis

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Deux raisons de la crise ( not pour)
Same with
Résponsable DE empêcher de ( prevent, put stop to)NOT pour
Accéder à qqc ( access, reach)

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25
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Take the money and run

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Manger la grenouille

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26
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40 year olds

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Les quadras

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27
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Surely, certainly, inevitably

Necessarily

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Forcément

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28
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Support v

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Soutenir qqn (contre qqn)
Soutenir le moral des troupes
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28
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Be mean to someone

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Être désagréable avec qqn

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29
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Agreement

Consistency

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Concordance f

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30
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Globalisation

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Mondialisation f

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31
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Shortterm problems

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Les problèmes conjoncturels

Une situation conjoncturelle

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33
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Sock leave

Maternity leave

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Congé maladie

Congé de maternité

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34
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The writing is on the wall

The end is near!

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Les carottes sont cuites

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35
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Confise the issue (expr)

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Brouiller les cartes

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36
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Prefix parfait, mortel, poli

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Imparfait, impoli, immortel

Im before m and p

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36
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Budget cut

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Coupe budgétaire f

Déficit budgétaire m

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36
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Rub yr hands

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Se frotter les mains

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37
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Big demonstrations

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Les grosses manifestations

Le gros conflit

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37
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Brand-name, designer

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De marque

…des vêtements de marque

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38
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Organic

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Bio

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39
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Yes-man, boot licker

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Béni-oui-oui m

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42
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Straw

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Paille f

42
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Insult v, have a go at (inf)

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Traiter

43
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Cheetah

Panther

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Guépard m

Panthère f

44
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The generation before

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La génération précédente

Une situation moins bonne

45
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Red card and fig

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Carton rouge m

45
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Clove (spice)

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Le clou de giroffe

45
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Standardisation

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Uniformisation f

47
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Counterfeit n

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Contrefaçon f

48
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Prefix legal

Prefix responsable

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Before l il illégal

Before r ir irresponsable

49
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Boarding pass

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Carte d’embarquement f

Tous les passagers doivent présenter leur carte d’embarquement avant de monter dans l’avion.

50
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Stay standing

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Rester debout

51
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Bore stiff, send to sleep

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Barber

52
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A member of the crew

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Un membre de l’équipage

53
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Trolley

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Chariot m

54
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Confront, face

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Affronter qqc

55
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Shut sb up, leave sb speechless

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Couper la chique à qqn

56
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Be rude to sb

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Etre grossier (grossière) avec qqn

57
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Play on the computer

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Jouer à l’ordinateur

Jouer sur ordinateur ( no art)

58
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Put or enter st on the computer

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Mettre sur ordinateur

La secrétaire met sur ordinateur le compte rendu des réunions.

59
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Host, presenter

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Animateur -rice

60
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Spring roll

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Nem m

61
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Others

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Autrui

62
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Travel around the world

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Faire le tour du monde

63
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Father, mother slang

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Darron, daronne

64
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Boarding school

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Internat ( de jeunes filles)

65
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Moratorium

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Moratoire m

66
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Person, character fiction, living

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Personnage m

Personnalité f

67
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Liberate, free v

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Affranchir

S’affranchir free yr self fr

68
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Suspended sentence

Reprieve, deferment

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Avec sursis m

Sursis m

69
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Fast food industry

Fast food chain

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La restauration rapide

Chaîne de restauration rapide f

70
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Against the multinationals/ capitalism

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Contre le grand capital

71
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Fast food, take away on the go

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Une restauration nomade

72
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Institutional catering ( school cantine fex)

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Restauration collective, restauration scolaire f

73
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Live ( music fex)

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En live, en directe

La musique est joué en directe pendant le film.

74
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Silent movies

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Les films muets

75
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Change pf scene (pos) n

Culture shock, disorientation (neg)

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Dépaysement m

Etre dépaysé adj

76
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Parting (hair)
Ray fish
Stripe line

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Raie f

77
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Rag, old rag (clothes wo value)

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Guenille f

78
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Odd, mismatching, incomplete

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Dépareillé adj
Il a mis des chaussettes dépareillées.
D a hérité d’un service de table dépareillé.

79
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Commonplace, cliché

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Poncif m (noun only)
C'est un discours rempli de poncifs.
80
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Thoughtful, wistful, contemplative

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Pensif -ve adj

81
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´mouse pad’ ( on laptop)

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Pavé tactile m

82
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Succeed, turn out well

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Aboutir
Les négociations ont abouti.
Negotiations have succeeded.
The negotiations came to a successful conclusion.

83
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Completion, result, outcome

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Aboutissement m

L

’

aboutissement de ce projet aura nécessité 3 années.

84
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Recovery (physical)

Closure (emotional)

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Guérison f

85
Q

Buy pur hase gain acquire

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Acquerir

N acquisition f

86
Q

Outburst, blaze,

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Flambée f

87
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A rise, uphill slope, climb, ascent n

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Montée f

Tombée drop, fall

88
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Drummer

Batsman ( sport)

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Batteur, -euse

Batteur à main hand mixer, hand whisk

89
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Stapler

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Agrafeuse f

90
Q

Night-light, parking light

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Veilleuse f

91
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Incubator

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Couveuse f

92
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Container

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Conteneur m

93
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Speed rapidity n

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Promptitude f
And promptness
Prompt à repondre

94
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Oddness, strangeness oddity

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Étrangeté nf

95
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Forgetfulness absent-mindedness n

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Étourderie f

96
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Dishonest, deceitful, hypocritical

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Fourbe adh

Fourberie nf trickery deceit

97
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Finalise, develop

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Mettre qqc au point

98
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Put in the wash

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Mettre au sale

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