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Huge Pile of Nouns II Flashcards

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Skyscraper

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Un gratte-ciel

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Mixture

Blend

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Un mélange

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Vastness

Scale

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L’immensité (f.)

Je ne m’étais pas rendu compte de l’immensité de la tâche.

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Gate

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Une grille

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Padlock

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Un cadenas

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Chain

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Une chaîne

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Gas cooker

Gas stove

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Une gazinière

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Story

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Une histoire

Un récit

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Notebook

Book (of tickets, stamps)

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Un carnet
un carnet de tickets
un carnet de timbres

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Diary

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Un journal

tenir un journal [to keep a diary]

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Ray

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Un rayon
un rayon de soleil [a sunbeam, a ray of sunlight]
quelques rayons de soleil [a bit of sun]

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Shelf

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Une étagère
Un rayon
les rayons d’une bibliothèque [the shelves of a bookcase]

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Grocer’s shop

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Une épicerie

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Flea market

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Un marché aux puces

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Dormitory

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Un dortoir

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Chain, sequence (of events)

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Un enchaînement

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Hurricane

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Un ouragan

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To arrive/pass through like a hurricane

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Arriver/Passer comme un ouragan

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To create a storm

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Déclencher un ouragan

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Patrol

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Une patrouille

être/partir/aller en patrouille [to be/to set off/to go on patrol]

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Phenomenon

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Un phénomène

des phénomènes inexpliqués [unexplained phenomena]

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Prejudice

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Le préjugé

préjugé de classe/race

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He’s very prejudiced

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Il est plein de préjugés

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To have a prejudice against

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Avoir un préjugé en défaveur de

Avoir un préjugé contre

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Interval

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Un intervalle
planter des arbres à intervalles réguliers
les mêmes questions posées à intervalles réguliers

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Newcomer

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Un nouveau venu

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Most of

The majority of

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La plupart de

La majeure partie de

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Most of the time

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La plupart du temps

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Most of

The better part of

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La plus grande partie de

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Majority

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La majorité

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In the majority of cases

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Dans la majorité des cas

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Mainly

For the most part

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En majorité

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Unemployment

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Le chômage

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Century

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Un siècle

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Decade

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Une décennie

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Potential

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Le potentiel
potentiel de [potential for]
son potentiel artistique

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Shadow

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Une ombre

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In the shadow of sth

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À l’ombre de qch

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To live in sb’s shadow

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Vivre dans l’ombre de qn

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Without a shadow of doubt

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Sans l’ombre d’un doute

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He is a shadow of his former self.

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Il n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même.

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Search

official search

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Une perquisition

effectuer une perquisition au domicile de qn [to carry out a search of/at sb’s house]

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Frame

Framework

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Un cadre
un cadre en bois
dans le cadre de [within the framework of]

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Surroundings

Setting

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Un cadre

dans un cadre agréable/champêtre [in a pleasant/rustic setting]

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Leafy setting, leafy surroundings

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Un cadre de verdure

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Assassination attempt on

Attack on

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Attentat contre
attentat terroriste/raciste
attentat à la bombe [bomb attack]

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Stadium

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Un stade

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Design

Intention

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Un dessein

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Deliberately

By design

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À dessein

à dessein de faire [with the intention of doing]

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To have, to form the intention of doing

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Avoir, former le dessein de faire

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Battle

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Une bataille
perdre/gagner une bataille [to lose/win a battle]
une bataille d’idées [a war of ideas]

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Dishevelled hair

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Les cheveux en bataille

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Bushy eyebrows

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Les sourcils en bataille

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Boundaries

Edges

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Des confins (m.)
aux confins de l’Europe et de l’Asie [on the borders of Europe and Asia]
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Cleverness

Shrewdness, astuteness

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L’astuce (f.)
être plein d’astuce [to be very clever - enfant]
avoir beaucoup d’astuce [to be extremely shrewd - adult]

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Trick

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Une astuce

toute l’astuce consiste à faire [the trick’s in doing]

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Jolt

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Une secousse
une légère secousse [a slight jolt]
avancer sans une secousse [to move forward smoothly]

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Shaking

Trembling

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Le tremblement

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He/She was trembling / shaking all over.

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Son corps était agité de tremblements.

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To speak with a tremor in one’s voice

To speak with a trembling voice

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Parler avec des tremblements dans la voix

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Awakening

Dawning

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Un éveil

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To arouse (sb’s) suspicions

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Donner l’éveil (à qn)

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Forecast

Prediction

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Un pronostic

faire des pronostics [to make forecasts]

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Painter

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Un peintre

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Colleague

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Un collègue

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Fellow member

Colleague

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Un confrère

ses confrères musiciens/acteurs [his/her fellow musicians/actors]

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Penny

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Un sou

Ça ne m’a pas coûté un sou. [It didn’t cost me a penny.]

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To be penniless

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Être sans le sou

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Every penny counts

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Un sou est un sou

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He hasn’t got a scrap of common sense/talent.

He hasn’t got a hint of malice in him.

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Il n’a pas un sou de bon sens/talent.

Il n’a pas un sou de méchanceté.

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Destination

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Une destination

arriver à destination [to reach one’s destination]

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Light

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Un feux

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Setting sun

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Le soleil couchant

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The fiery glow of the setting sun

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Les feux du couchant

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Interference in

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L’ingérence (f.) dans

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Seat

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Un siège

siège avant/arrière [front/back seat]

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Compensation

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Une contrepartie
en contrepartie (de) [in compensation, in return (for)]
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Wheel

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Une roue

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A flat tyre

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Une roue à plat

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Cartwheel

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Une roue

faire une roue

81
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Job interview

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Un entretien d’embauche

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Factor

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Un facteur

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Emphasis

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Une force

Une insistance

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Competition

Contest

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Un concours

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Competition for sth

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La concurrence pour qch
La concurrence internationale était rude. [There was fierce international competition.]
Il y a beaucoup de concurrence pour entrer dans cette école. [Competition for admission to the school is keen.]

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In competition with

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En concurrence avec
Ils sont en concurrence l’un avec l’autre, les uns avec les autres. [They are in competition with each other, one another.]

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Decision

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Une décision

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The decision to do sth

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La décision de fare qch

89
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Map

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Une carte

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Revenge

= vengeance

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La vengeance

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In revenge

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Par vengeance

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Revenge

= sport, others

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Une revanche

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Favour

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Un service

Une faveur

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In favour of

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En faveur de

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Preferential treatment

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Le traitement de faveur

96
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Preferential treatment

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Le traitement de faveur

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Vigour

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La vigueur

plein de vigueur [full of vigour]

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Abyss

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Un abîme

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Gulf (between)

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Un abîme (entre)

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Gulf (between)

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Un abîme (entre)

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Period of uncertainty

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Une période d’incertitude

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Composure

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Un calme
Un flegme
retrouver son calme [to regain one’s composure]

103
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Composure

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Un calme
Un flegme
retrouver son calme [to regain one’s composure]

104
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Pitfall

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Un écueil

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