The Human Being - Sensations, smell, taste, touch Flashcards by David S

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une intuition

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an intuition, a hunch

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un pressentiment

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a foreboding

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une petite idée

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an inkling

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flairer, renifler

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to sniff

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une odeur forte

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an odour

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empester, puer

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to reek ; to stink

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une bouffée, une odeur

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a whiff

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une senteur

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a scent

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inodore

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scentless

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parfumé

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scented ; fragrant ; perfumed

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avoir le goût de qqch

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to taste of sth

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savourer

savoureux

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to savour

savoury

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mangeable / acceptable

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‘palatable

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peu épicé / doux

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mild (ai)

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épicer / pimenter

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to spice up / to pepper up

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effleurer

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to skim

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frôler

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to brush against

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tripoter / tâter du doigt

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to finger

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chercher à tâtons

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to feel for / to grope for

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manier / manipuler

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to handle

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se frotter contre

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to rub against

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tapoter

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to pat

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caresser

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to stroke, to caress

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frapper

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to knock on / against

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presser

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to squeeze

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pétrir / malaxer

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to knead

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chatouiller / chatouilleux

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to tickle / ticklish

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piquant (plante)

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bristly (brisli)

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piquer

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to prick

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qui démange

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itchy

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raide

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stiff

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rigide

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rigid

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mou

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limp

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flexible

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pliable / flexible

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gras

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greasy

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visqueux

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viscous

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glissant

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slippery

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humide

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moist

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collant

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sticky

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tiède

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tepid / lukewarm

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un sombre pressentiment

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a dark / gloomy foreboding

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contrairement aux apparences

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contrary to appearances

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en dépit des apparences

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despite appearances

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préserver les apparences

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to keep up appearances

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être très conscient de

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to be alive to

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une odeur d’algues

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a whiff of seaweed

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être observateur

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to be observant

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une forte odeur

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a sharp smell

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une odeur de renfermé

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a musty smell

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une odeur très reconnaissable

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an unmistakable smell

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mettre en valeur le goût de qqch

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to enhance the taste of sth

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avoir un léger goût de

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to taste faintly of

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s’engourdir

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to go numb

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mes jambes se sont engourdies

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my legs went numb