Voc 8 Flashcards

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Q

une moutte

Les mouettes suivent les bateaux.

A

Seagull
The seaguls are following the boats.

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enfouir

L’écureuil enfouit des glands dans la terre.

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Bury
The squirrel is burying the acors in the ground.

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une buée

Un miroir couvert de buée

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condensation
a mirror covered in condensation

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4
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la vaille

plumer une volaille

A

poultry, fowl
to pluck a fowl

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déblayer

Le chasse-neige déblaie la route enneigée.
Commençons par déblayer le courrier.

A

clear away, sort out
The snow plow is clearing the snow-covered road.
Let’s start by sorting the mail.

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embrayer

Embrayer la soirée avec une danse.
Il ne va pas encore embrayer sur ce sujet.
Embraye!

A

Start (fam.), start discussing
To start off the night with a dance
He does’t want to go into this subject again
Hurry up!

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bafouiller

Bafouiller des remerciements.
La honte le fait bafouiller.

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mumble, splutter
To mumble some words of thanks
The shame makes him splutter

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8
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outiller

Cette entreprise est outillée de robots.
S’outiller pour travailler le bois,

A

equip
This company is equipped with robots.
To equip oneself to work in the woods.

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brouiller

Brouiller les pistes ou les cartes.
La pluie brouille sa vue.
Elles se sont brouillées avec leur amie d’enfance.

A

confuse, smudge, blur
to confuse or cloud the issue
The rain blurred her sight.
They have fallen out with their childhood friend.

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10
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trancher

Elle a tranché du pain.
Le président a tranché contre le projet de construction d’un barrage.
Cette écharpe colorée tranchera bien sur ce tailleur marine.

A

She cut the bread.
The president decided against building the dam.
This colorful scarf will contrast well with this navy suit.

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entreprendre

Entreprendre des travaux.
Ils ont entrepris de démontrer la faiblesse de cette proposition.

A

To start the work
They set about demonstrating teh weakness of this proposition.

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12
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activer

Ils devront activer la révision.
Activer le feu.
Les employés s’activent quand arrive le patron.

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They have to speed up the review.
Start the fire
The employees are acting busy when the boss arrives.

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13
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contrecœur

Il s’est marié à contrecœur.

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He got married reluctantly.

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