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1
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To break, bust, snap

To send packing

A

Péter

Envoyer en péter

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Manager

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Gérant, gérante

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Since

Since it’s like that, I’m going

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Puisque

Puisque c’est comme ça, je m’en vais

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4
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Snack

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Un en-cas, encas

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5
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Dress with a train

To lag behind

To tow (boat)

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Robe en traîne

Être à la traîne

Mettre à la traîne

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Hocus pocus

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Tour de passe-passe

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To cut, carve

Well cut (hair)

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Tailler

Bien taillé

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Vulture

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Un vautour

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Kid, brat
Childishness

Stop being childish!

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Môme
Mômeries

Arrête avec tes mômeries

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10
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Forgetting others

It’s a simple oversight

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L’oubli des autres

C’est un simple oubli

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11
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To frown

To wrinkle nose

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Froncer les sourcils

Froncer le nez

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12
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To wiggle, wag tail

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Frétiller
De la queue
De l’impatience

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Convincing, plausible, likely

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Vraisemblable

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To close, end, enclose

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Clore

Clos clos clôt, closens, closez, closent

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Great Wall

Great Wall of China

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Muraille

La grande muraille de Chine

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To frighten

To take fright

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Effaroucher

S’effaroucher

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17
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To look each other up and down

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Toiser. /twa zay/

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18
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Unfeasable impossible

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Infaisable

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19
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To grind

My coffee grinder makes an excellent grind

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Moudre
Mouds mouds moud moulons ez moulent

Mon moulin à café donne une excellente mouture

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An abyss, ruin

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Un abime, abîme

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Basket carried by grape picker,

Hood for chimney or stove

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Une hotte. /aht/

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22
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Pall (ie dead person carry)

fried egg
Wood burning stove. (Pronunciation!)

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Une poêle. /pu wal/

Œuf à la poêle
Poêle à bois

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Faithfully, fairly, honestly

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Loyalement

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24
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To rust

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Rouiller. /Roo [ee] yeh/.

The ee is so fast you barely say it

25
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To wet clothes

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Mouiller. /mooyeh/

26
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Soft weak listless

A wimp

To be slack
To give a bit of slack, leeway

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Mou. Mol before vowels

Un mou

Avoir du mou
Donner/laisser du mou à qn

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Boring

What a bore!

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Raseur. Raseuse. /rahzur/

Quel raseur!

28
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To knock over

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Culbuter

29
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Leading expert

Leading medical expert

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Une sommité

Une sommité de la médecine

30
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To compromise (pronounce!!!)

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Transiger. /trahn zee zhey/

Avec qn qc
Sur

31
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Killjoy

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Une rabat-joie

32
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Competition, between, with

Unfair competition

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Concurrence

Concurrence déloyale

33
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Formidable, dreadful

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Redoutable

34
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Idle

The idle rich
Life of idleness

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Oisif, oisive

Les oisifs
Vie oisive

35
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Cruelty. Towards

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Cruauté /croo oh tay/. Envers

36
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To bequeath

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Léguer. /leh gay/

37
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To tease

Teasing

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Taquiner

Taquinerie

38
Q

Prodigious, wonderful

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Prodigieux prodigieuse

/pro dih gee uhz/

39
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To milk a cow

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Traire le lait d’une vache

40
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To crumble

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Émietter

41
Q

2 days later

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Le surlendemain

42
Q

To highlight

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Surligner

/seeyuhr Lin yay/

43
Q

Right away

A

Sur-Le-champ

/seeyuhr/

44
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Penultimate

A

Pénultième /peu uhl tee em/

45
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To sting (irriter). Gas stings my eyes
                  (Piquer)
A

Picoter Le gaz me picote les yeux

Piquer

46
Q

Yet, though

Yet it’s not so difficult!
It’s true, though.

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Pourtant

Ce n’est pourtant pas difficile
C’est pourtant vrai

47
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To get back, avoir à nouveau

She’s going to get her children back

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Revoir

Elle va revoir ses enfants

48
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To persist

He’s wrong, yet he persists

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Obstiner. S’obstiner

Il a tort, pourtant il s’obstine

49
Q

Undone knot
Haggard face
Defeated enemy

A defeat

A

Noeud Défait
Avoir la mine défaite
Ennemi défait

Une défaite

50
Q

To make feel sick, to sicken

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Écœurer /et cuh ray/

51
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To wear out
To ruin ones health
The batteries are worn out

To use and abuse
To be diplomatic

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User
User sa santé
Les piles sont usées

User et abuser
User la diplomatie /dih plo mah see/

52
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Bravado

Bravery

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La bravade

La bravoure

53
Q

The San Andreas fault poses a threat

A

La faille de San Andreas constitue une menace

/f ai yeh/

54
Q

Crazy

Fake jewelry

A

Toc

Un bijou en toc

55
Q

Bad luck

To have bad luck

A

Guigne /

Avoir du guigne

56
Q

Alabaster

A

Albâtre /AL bat ruh/

57
Q 
pronounce:
  Mourning
  lease
  welcome
  fennel
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le deuil /duh oi yeh/ but fast!
le bail /bahyeh/
un accueil /ah kuh yeh/
un fenouil /feh noo yeh/

58
Q

to almost !!!
I almost told him.

to swoon, faint; to fail
I feel faint.

A

faillir
J’ai failli lui dire.

défaillir!
Je me sent défaillir
(de faim, peur, bonheur)

59
Q

Test

A

Trst

French 2018 (10 decks)

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