Frequency Dictionary 4001-4500 Flashcards by Larry O'Connell

leadership

un leadership

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notebook

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portable / wearable / cell phone

portable

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early / precocious

précoce

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qualification

une qualification

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insult

une insulte

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to glide / soar

planer

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internship / training course

un stage

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to dedicate

dédier

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completely / directly / straight out

carrément

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exile

un exil

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craftsman / self-employed

un artisan

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reassuring / comforting

rassurant

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cure / remedy

un remède

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component / constituent

composant

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economically

économiquement

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to scream / yell

hurler

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yen

un yen

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fatty / fat / greasy

gras

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media

médiatique

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statue

une statue

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strike / striking / stamp / impression / punch

une frappe

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to industrialize

industrialiser

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efficiently / effectively

efficacement

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gulf

un golfe

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atmosphere / mood

une ambiance

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to cooperate

coopérer

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bus

un bus

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seventh

septième

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front / façade

une façade

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charming

charmant

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marginal

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accountant / accountable

comptable

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loneliness / isolation / insulation

un isolement

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to restrain / moderate / reduce

modérer

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steering wheel

volant

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pig / pork

un porc

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membership / belonging

une appartenance

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riot / rioting

une émeute

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constructive

constructif

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minor / minimal

minime

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slowing down

un ralentissement

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mobilization

une mobilisation

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to endeavor

tâcher

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racism

un racisme

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town hall / city hall

une mairie

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ability

une aptitude

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smoke

une fumée

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rescue / salvaging

un sauvetage

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recession

une récession

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convincing

convaincant

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penny

un sou

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analyst

une analyste

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so-called / alleged

prétendu

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unrefined / crude / coarse / rude / rough

grossier

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ignorance

une ignorance

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pervert / perverse / perverted

pervers

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approximately / more or less / noticeably

sensiblement

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to bequeath / hand down / pass on

léguer

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to impose / levy / withdraw / remove

prélever

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walnut / to drown / flood / blur / water down

noyer

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abbot / priest

un abbé

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to detect

détecter

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to pick up / capture / tap

capter

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sceptical / sceptic

sceptique

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yours

vôtre

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problematic / problem

problématique

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to veil

voiler

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nationality

une nationalité

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oath / vow

un serment

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to fly away / fly off / take off

envoler

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minister / clergyman / pastor

un pasteur

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to activate / speed up / stroke / get moving

activer

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chemistry

une chimie

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erroneous

erroné

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ghost / phantom

un fantôme

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to navigate / sail

naviguer

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Yugoslav / Yugoslavian

yougoslave

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explicitly

explicitement

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to alert / inform / warn

alerter

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vigilance / watchfulness

une vigilance

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rock music

un rock

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reconciliation

une réconciliation

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back / reverse / setback

un revers

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aviation

une aviation

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suppleness / flexibility

une souplesse

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respectful

respectueux

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betrayal / treachery / treason

une trahison

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debit / turnover / delivery / rate

un débit

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reprieve / deferment

un sursis

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simultaneously

simultanément

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technically

techniquement

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bone

un os

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rating / share index / quoted value

une cote

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dictionary

un dictionnaire

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symptom

un symptôme

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deliberately

délibérément

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listening

une écoute

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contingent / draft / quota

contingent

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to emerge / rise up / come out

émerger

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to teach / educate / inform

instruire

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equity / fairly

une équité

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unconscious / thoughtless

inconscient

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warm

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to disguise

déguiser

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fever

une fièvre

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pane / window

une vitre

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fantastic / terrific / great / weird / eerie

fantastique

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curve / curved

courbe

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to substract / remove / shield / escape from

soustraire

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unstable

instable

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vapor / steam / steamer / steamship

une vapeur

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butter

un beurre

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monument

un monument

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oral

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to televise

téléviser

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to strengthen / reinforce

consolider

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mute / silent / dumb

muet

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offender / offending

contrevenant

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offensive / offence

une offensive

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routine

une routine

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to code / encode

coder

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frost / freezing / gel

un gel

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renovation / restoration

une rénovation

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controversy

une controverse

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mediocre / second-rate

médiocre

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filial / branch office

filial

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shift / relay

un relais

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opponent / opposing

opposant

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downstream / downhill

un aval

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column / heading / rubric

une rubrique

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prefect

un préfet

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provocation

une provocation

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summary / brief / cursory

sommaire

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hillside / mountainside

un versant

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reluctance / hesitation

une réticence

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pregnancy

une grossesse

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Egyptian

égyptien

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to stamp

un timbre

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to carve / cut

découper

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distributor / machine

distributeur

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widening / letting-out / stretching / broadening

un élargissement

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to degrade / debase / damage / erode

dégrader

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colonial

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talk / discussion / negotiation

un pourparler

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effect / incidence

une incidence

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concrete

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reliable / trustworthy

fiable

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genocide

un génocide

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terrible / appalling / dreadful

épouvantable

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indifferent / unconcerned / unimportant

indifférent

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daring / audacious / bold

audacieux

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powder

une poudre

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content

une teneur

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to reverse / invert

inverser

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naval

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drift

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discontented / dissatisfied / displeased

mécontent

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vocabulary

un vocabulaire

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to stabilize

stabiliser

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delegate

délégué

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to center

centrer

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Algerian

algérien

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likeable / nice / pleasant

sympathique

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around / round about

alentour

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to corrupt / bribe

corrompre

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shopkeeper / merchant / commercial

commerçant

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chest / breast / breasts / bosom

une poitrine

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to crown / award

couronner

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to reread / proofread

relire

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to perpetuate / carry on

perpétuer

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doctrine

une doctrine

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competitive

compétitif

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majesty

une majesté

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sheep

mouton

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indifference

une indifférence

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to leave out / miss out / omit

omettre

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typical

typique

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competitive

concurrentiel

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disarmament / disarming

un désarmement

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daily / every day

quotidiennement

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architecture

une architecture

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eventuality / possibility

une éventualité

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to slaughter / massacre

massacrer

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mutual / reciprocal / the opposite

réciproque

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staff / staff headquarters

un état-major

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to linger

attarder

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to include / encompass / incorporate

englober

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to get larger

grossir

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separatist

séparatiste

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extra / additional

un surcroît

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outgoing

sortant

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lead

un plomb

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throat

une gorge

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nationalist

nationaliste

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exporter / exporting

exportateur

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watch

une montre

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to ratify

ratifier

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exploit

un exploit

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encouraging

encourageant

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climatic

climatique

to notice / advise

aviser

epidemic

une épidémie

alarm

une alarme

to bet

parier

ecological

écologique

telescope / glasses

une lunette

circle / entourage

un entourage

sphere

une sphère

confidential

confidentiel

to sanction / punish / approve

sanctionner

recruiting / recruitment

un recrutement

to release / slacken / loosen / relax

détendre

easy / well off / well-to-do

aisé

washing / toilet / lavatory / bathroom / restroom

une toilette

bus

un autobus

to put at a disadvantage

défavoriser

robust / sturdy / resistance fighter

résistant

admiration

une admiration

acid

acide

banal / trite / commonplace / ordinary

banal

chicken

un poulet

to fish / go fishing / peach tree

pêcher

team / squad / brigade

une brigade

to shiver / tremble / shake / flicker

trembler

receipt / accepted

un reçu

to civilize

civiliser

boost / reminder / recovery

une relance

dose / amount

une dose

rent

un loyer

distortion

une distorsion

to grant / bestow

octroyer

arrival / comer

un arrivant

standard / switchboard

standard

taxi

un taxi

limitation / restriction / limit

une limitation

irreversible

irréversible

fatal / deadly / fateful

fatal

furious / raging / violent

furieux

verbal

to contact / get in touch with

contacter

police station

un commissariat

cheerful / merry / gay

gai

confrontation

une confrontation

to sh*t / piss off / get pissed off

chier

Atlantic

atlantique

rough / harsh / hard / tough

rude

sign / notice / panel

un panneau

appreciation / assessment / appraisal

une appréciation

reflex

réflexe

complement

un complément

initially

initialement

comedian / comedy

comédien

successor

un successeur

distrust / mistrust / suspicion

une méfiance

to fold / roll up / fold up / withdraw

replier

checker / inspector / auditor

vérificateur

dictator

un dictateur

claim

une prétention

editor / writer / drafter / compiler

un rédacteur

to swallow

avaler

extraction

une extraction

banker

un banquier

holder / with tenure / occupant

titulaire

stabilization

une stabilisation

mutually / one another

mutuellement

legion

une légion

gap / deficiency

une lacune

machine / tool / vehicle / device

un engin

to scorn / look down / spurn / disdain

mépriser

minority

minoritaire

ideological

idéologique

bell

une cloche

compatriot

une compatriote

affection / ailment

une affection

salt

un sel

majority

majoritaire

straightening up / upturn / righting

un redressement

paradox

un paradoxe

to put a figure to / assess / quantify / number

chiffrer

catastrophic / disastrous

catastrophique

magistrate / judge

un magistrat

extract / excerpt

un extrait

lover

un amant

joke / prank / hoax / farce

une farce

competitiveness

une compétitivité

enthusiastic

enthousiaste

about forty

une quarantaine

basement / lower ground floor / subsoil / underground

un sous-sol

rat

floodtide / stream of / flood of

un flot

to bite / overlap into

mordre

partly

partiellement

radioactive

radioactif

pass / channel

une passe

independently / irrespective of / regardless of

indépendamment

renting

une location

naïve / innocent

naïf

retired

retraité

innocence

une innocence

jewel

un bijou

mass

une messe

coincidence

une coïncidence

torture

une torture

protective / protector / guardian

protecteur

radiance

un rayonnement

harvest / crop

une récolte

suitcase

une valise

dancer

un danseur

expertise

une expertise

mining

minier

window / display cabinet

une vitrine

to shake / rattle

ébranler

skull

crâne

to annihilate / wipe out / ruin / vanish

anéantir

vocal

unilateral

unilatéral

fuel / combustible

combustible

to save / save on / conserve

économiser

to weave

tisser

hen / chick

une poule

punishment

une punition

hesitation

une hésitation

profitable

rentable

loyal / faithful

loyal

help / back-up / support

un renfort

coherence / consistency

une cohérence

mouse

une souris

to bomb

bombarder

to arouse / stimulate / awaken

éveiller

semester / six-month period

un semestre

believer

croyant

director

réalisateur

brutally

brutalement

heavily

lourdement

tent

une tente

drop

une goutte

push / rise / upsurge

une poussée

monk / friar

un moine

moderate / restrained / reasonable

modéré

negligible / trivial

négligeable

fault / defect / vice

un vice

to symbolize

symboliser

to substitute

substituer

subtle / nice

subtil

commander

commandant

to fall

chuter

loyalty / faithfulness / accuracy / reliability

une fidélité

to topple / fall over / knock off

basculer

administrator / administrative

gestionnaire

fearsome / formidable

redoutable

immigrant

controversial / controversy

polémique

to weigh down / make heavy

alourdir

advanced / overhung

une avancée

to act ruthlessly / be rife

sévir

twin

jumeau

to trap / booby-trap

piéger

trusting / confident

confiant

to hang down

pendre

intact

speed / quickness

une rapidité

town / village

une localité

recovery / retrieval / salvage

une récupération

vigorous

vigoureux

profitability

une rentabilité

beyond / above / over

delà

to tilt / tend towards

incliner

dreadful / awful / horrible

affreux

to revolt / rebel / outrage

révolter

tale

un conte

escape / evasion

une évasion

reference / benchmark / landmark

un repère

philosophical

philosophique

arrived

arrivé

irony

une ironie

waiter / server

un serveur

to banish / ban

bannir

inadequacy / insufficiency

une insuffisance

bookstore / bookshop

une librairie

parenthesis / bracket / aside

une parenthèse

to bet / stake

miser

drug / narcotic / stunning / astounding

stupéfiant

grant-holder / scholarship holder / stock

boursier

raising / levying / levee

une levée

to bend / distort / deform

déformer

threatening / menacing

menaçant

north-east

un nord-est

substitution / mix-up

une substitution

to adorn / put on / to ward off / parry

parer

profitable / worthwhile / advantageous / attractive /

avantageux

to handicap

handicaper

to film / shoot

filmer

delinquent / offender

délinquant

losing / loser

perdant

altitude / height

une altitude

to impute to / attribute to

imputer

to joke

plaisanter

poetic / poetical / poetics

poétique

to clear / go against / harm / serve

desservir

monthly

mensuel

crap / bullsh*t / stupidity

une connerie

bloody / cruel / covered in blood

sanglant

elbow

un coude

to remove / take away / take off / take out

ôter

postponement / deferment

un report

creature

une créature

in no way / not in the least / not at all

aucunement

globally

globalement

suitable / appropriate / correct / proper / acceptable

convenable

itinerary / route

itinéraire

to purge / bleed / drain

purger

to anger / make angry / get angry

fâcher

to cross again / retake / show again / iron

repasser

alternate / alternating

alternatif

landing / level / flat

un palier

shortly / soon

prochainement

regulation / control / statutory

réglementaire

suit / costume / dress

un costume

therapy

une thérapie

reproach

un reproche

parish priest

un curé

inspector / controller

un contrôleur

relief

un soulagement

to dissolve / disband / break up

dissoudre

avalanche

une avalanche

mark

un mark

breach / gap

une brèche

incitement / incentive

une incitation

coach / trainer

un entraîneur

editorial

éditorial

conjugal / married

conjugal

pale

pâle

to loosen / release / let go

relâcher

visa / stamp

un visa

twenty five

vingt-cinq

twenty four

vingt-quatre

sin

un péché

policeman

une gendarme

dryness / drought

une sécheresse

score

un score

to taste / snack

goûter

to disown / repudiate / go back on

renier

jurisdiction / court of law

une juridiction

prostitution

une prostitution

card / sheet / slip / form

une fiche

imbalance

un déséquilibre

probability / likelihood

une probabilité

to hinder / hamper / get in the way of

entraver

to underestimate

sous-estimer

embargo

un embargo

prohibited / banned

interdit

fog / mist / haze

un brouillard

Syrian

syrien

jet / throw / spray / nozzle

un jet

truce

une trêve

occupant / occupier / occupying

occupant

punctual

ponctuel

definite

défini

detachment

un détachement

manuscript / handwritten

manuscrit

basket

un panier

button / knob / spot

un bouton

still / motionless

immobile

firmness / solidness / steadiness

une fermeté

to transport / convey

véhiculer

to reply

répliquer

fascinating / exciting

passionnant

theology

une théologie

to happen that / happen to

advenir

to immigrate

immigrer

stain / spot / mark

une tache

tenderness / fondness

une tendresse

privileged

privilégié

slogan

un slogan

cheese

un fromage

toxic / toxin

toxique

incompetence / incapability

une incapacité

pharmaceutical

pharmaceutique

perfume / scent / fragrance

un parfum

antique / ancient

antique

much debated / controversial

controversé

instinct

un instinct

bar

un barreau

intolerable

insupportable

timely /

opportun

parquet floor / hardwood floor / prosecutor’s office

un parquet

navigation

une navigation

to annoy / bother / thwart

contrarier

to knot / tie

nouer

frustration

une frustration

about fifty

une cinquantaine

to improvise

improviser

desperate / hopeless

désespéré

car

une auto

herd / flock

un troupeau

police force / police station

une gendarmerie

genetically

génétiquement

similar / analogous

analogue

come

venu