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False Cognates - Intermediate 2 Flashcards

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An account

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Un compte rendu

Un compte de banque

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Un acompte

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A deposit, advance, down payment

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An affair

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Une aventure/liaison romantique et sexuelle (courte ou longue durée) entre 2 personnes NON mariées

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Une bonne affaire

Affaires

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A good thing/deal

Business

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An alliance

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Une alliance (confédération)

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Une alliance

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A wedding ring

An alliance (between 2 countries)

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An amateur

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Un amateur (contraire de vétéran)

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Un amateur

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A fan, lover, euthusiast, amateur

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An ancient thing

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Une chose antique

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Un ancien

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Old, former

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A bureau

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Un bureau : agency (FBI)

Une commode (chest of drawers)

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Un bureau

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A desk, office

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13
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A circulation

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Tirage (d’un journal)

Circulation sanguine

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La circulation

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Traffic

Circulation (blood)

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A congress

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Un congrès politique

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Un congrès

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A convention, symposium, conference

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A date

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Un rendez-vous amoureux

Une datte (fruit)

Une date

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Une date

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A date

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Derange / deranged

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Rendre fou / fou

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Déranger quelqu’un

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To bother someone

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A dire

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Désastreux, épouvantable

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Dire

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Say, tell

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Effectively

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Efficacement

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Effectivement

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Actually, really, in fact, indeed

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An experience

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Une expérience de vie

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Une expérience (scientific)

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An experiment

27
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An inconvenient person

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Une personne inopportune, incommode

28
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Un inconvénient

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A drawback, a disadvantage

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An issue

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Un problème, question, enjeu, sujet

30
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Une issue

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An exit, way out

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A large view

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Grand, vaste

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Une fente large

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Wide, broad

33
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A lunatic guy (adj)

A lunatic (n)

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Une personne folle, démente, cinglée

Un fou, un cinglé

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Une personne lunatique

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Qc : distracted, to have one’s head in the clouds

France : crazy, insane

35
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A novel

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Un roman

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Une nouvelle

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Some news, short story

37
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An occasion

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Un événement

38
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Une occasion

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An opportunity

39
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To pass

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Passer devant qqch

Réussir (cours / exam)

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Passer

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To take/write/do a test (depends on the type of test)

To spend time

41
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Pleasant person

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Personne agréable

42
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Plaisant

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Amusing

43
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To pretend

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Faire semblant

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Prétendre

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To claim, to assert (affirmer)

45
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To purchase

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Acheter

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Pourchasser

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Puruse, hunt down

47
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To realize, realise

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Sens commun : se rendre compte, prendre conscience de, découvrir

Sens moins commun : accomplir, produire, créer

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Réaliser

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Réaliser, se rendre compte : carry out, accomplish, achieve, finish

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A remark (n)

To remark on/upon (v)

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Faire une remarque

Faire des remarques sur / à propos de

50
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Remarquer qquch

Faire remarquer

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To notice

To point out

51
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A rendezvous (n)

To rendezvous (v)

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Un repaire d’individus
Rendez-vous galant
Rendez-vous militaire

Se retrouver, se réunir

52
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Un rendez-vous

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Appointment (doctor/dentist)

A date (sentimental)

A meeting place

53
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A reunion

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Des retrouvailles (école…)

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Une réunion

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A meeting

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