Vocab 15 Flashcards

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an apprentice

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un apprenti, une apprentie

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to run away from home; to elope

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faire une fugue

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3
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to mix with, to deal with

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côtoyer

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4
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a mantelpiece; a door/window frame

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un chambranle

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5
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to wallow, to sprawl out

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se vautrer

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6
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a murderous look

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un regard torve

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7
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milky

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laiteux

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8
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to shut oneself away

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se murer

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9
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to interfere with, to enter into

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s’immiscer dans

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10
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a handyman

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un factotum

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11
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to tumble, to fall over

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culbuter

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12
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haste, rashness

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une précipitation

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13
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astride

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à califourchon

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14
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untimely, inopportune (formal)

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malvenu (sou)

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15
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to worry, to bother

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tracasser

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16
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disdain, contempt

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le dédain

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17
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to excite, to alure

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affrioler

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18
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a cherub

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un angelot

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19
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infidel, miscreant (lit)

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un mécréant, une mécréante (litt)

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20
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medicated

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médicamenteux

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21
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to sting, to smart

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picoter

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22
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a tank top

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un débardeur

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23
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a belly/gut; a flop/failure (fam)

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un bide (fam)

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24
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to rely/bank on

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escompter

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to plunge into mourning, to cast a tragic shadow over
endeuiller
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panning for gold
l’orpaillage (m)
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a cover charge
un couvert
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burning, stinging (adj)
cuisant
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a (financial) asset, a credit
un actif
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to announce/inform somebody of something
faire part de qqch à qqn
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to guide, to pilot, to show around
piloter
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to putoff/postpone, to transfer, to carry over
reporter
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a shoehorn
un chausse-pied
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an average Joe (fam)
un individu lambda
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a defendant, a prisoner
un prévenu, une prévenue
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jubilation, exhilaration (lit)
la liesse (litt)
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slush; muck (fam)
la bouillasse
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neverending, endless
sempiternel
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to step on someone’s toes
marcher sur/piétiner les plates-bandes de qqn
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a piece of junk, a dreadful film (fam)
un nanar (fam)
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reserve, self-control; detention
une retenue
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a (steep) slope; a side/aspect (of an argument)
un versant (abrupt)
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to make dizzy
entêter
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tongs (fireplace)
des pincettes
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to chew someone out
engueuler qqn
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an easiness, ease
une facilité
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an abacus
un boulier
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an event, episode, adventure
une péripétie
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a simpleton, a halfwit, a nincompoop (form)
un niais, une niaise (sou)
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sharp/on the dot (fam)
pétant (fam)
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a sailor, a seaman
un matelot
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a dividing/splitting up
un fractionnement
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frivolous, shallow
frivole
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a principal (hs)
un proviseur
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a magazine/clip
un chargeur
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a jar, a bottle
un bocal
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to botch (fam)
torcher (fam)
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to fall through, to fail (fam)
foirer (fam)
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a partition
une cloison
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a pair of pruning shears
un sécateur
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morale, spirits
le moral
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a fit of rage; to be all the rage
un accès de fureur; faire fureur
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to give (fam); to unload a problem on someone
refiler (fam); refiler le bébé à qqn
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a horse-drawn carriage
une calèche
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to move, to scoot
se pousser
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regulation (adj)
réglementaire
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a pupil (eye)
une prunelle, une pupille
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a stench, a stink
des relents (m, typiquement pluriel)
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molasses
la mélasse
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mocking/derisive (smile)
(un sourire) narquois
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unacceptable, inadmissible
irrecevable
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unsteady, wobbly, faltering
chancelant
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impious/godless person
un/une impie
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a millenium
un millénaire
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to cushion, absorb, muffle, deaden
amortir
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decay, decrepitude
une décrépitude
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selling (adj), willing to sell
vendeur
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to bury
ensevelir
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to transfer, to move (admin)
muter
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secondary, subordinate, junior
subalterne
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to charter (plane/boat)
affréter
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a bolt (i.e. on a door)
un verrou
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to eye someone up and down/size-up
toiser
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to vein (plants); to rib/to band (printing)
nervurer
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to flatten
aplatir
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to dispossess, to divest
exproprier
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redeemable
amortissable, remboursable
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to rake
ratisser
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a contribution
un apport
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slender
longiligne
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firm, authoritarian, iron-handed
à poigne
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face, appearance
une physionomie
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brand new
flambant neuf
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a simpleton, a halfwit
un nigaud, une nigaude
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a commuter town
une cité-dortoir
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to constrict
brider
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a funny man, a joker
une boute-en-train
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slanting (eyes)
bridé
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a cable car
une télécabine
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a flank, a side
un flanc
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nice and easy, cushy (fam)
pépère (fam)
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home automation
domotique
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a thingamajig
un bidule
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a shrine
un autel
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a persimmon
une plaquemine
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(in) limbo
(dans les) limbes (m.)
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to beat someone up, to lay into someone (fam)
passer qqn à tabac (fam)
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a bragger
un vantard, une vantarde
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to defer, to postpone
différer
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depressing
flippant
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junk food
la malbouffe
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to become infatuated with/very keen on
s’enticher de qqn/qqch
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cryptic, enigmatic (lit)
sibyllin (litt)
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a snapshot
un instantané
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wrathful (lit)
courroucé (litt)
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tawdry rags (lit)
des oripeaux (m., litt)
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mimicry, mimicking
le mimétisme
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to frown
froncer les sourcils
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to stretch (out)
s’étirer
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a swig, a gulp (fam)
une lampée (fam)
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to be going downhill, to be on a downward slope
péricliter
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to follow from
découler de
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an eardrum
un tympan
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a wicked stepmother
une marâtre
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always the same story (refrain)
c’est toujours la même rengaine
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to tell off
houspiller
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to summon
sommer
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heinous, villainous (lit)
scélérat
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fisticuffs (v. fam)
le rififi (t. fam)
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a tumbleweed
un virevoltant
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night vision
la nyctalopie
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a warning/challenge (before shooting)
une sommation
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the back (of a chair/sofa)
un dossier
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a neck (anatomy or clothing)
une encolure
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an idiot, a fool (fam)
un abruti, une abrutie (fam)
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a crackling, a pitter-patter
un crépitement
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brass
le laiton
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roofing
la toiture
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a roofing tile
une tuile
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crap, bull (v fam)
une foutaise
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crestfallen
déconfit
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to tar, to surface with tar
goudronner
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a flatterer/toady (lit.)
un flagorneur, une flagorneuse (litt)
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to win again, to regain, to recover, to go back to
regagner
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a dormitory
un dortoir
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downy
cotonneux
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a switchboard operator
un/une standardiste
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to grumble
maugréer
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frozen stiff (fam)
frigorifié (fam)
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wisteria
la glycine
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to exhaust, to tax, to fatigue
lasser
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grandpa, old-timer
un pépère
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to grumble, to moan (fam)
râler (fam)
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a carabiner
un mousqueton
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a shepherd’s crook
une houlette (h aspiré)
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pandemonium, commotion
un branle-bas
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inclusive (e.g. price, package)
forfaitaire
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a wake (funeral)
une veillée mortuaire
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a seizure, a grip, a grasp
la mainmise
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an outpost
un avant-poste
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to skimp on, to botch
bâcler
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to quarrel with one another
se quereller
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a speed bump
un dos-d’âne
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senile (fam)
gaga (fam)
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underpants (v fam)
un slibard (t fam)
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to get some shut-eye (fam)
roupiller (fam)
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knitwear, mesh
la maille
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road maintenance
la voirie
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to grind
moudre
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a face (fam)
une tronche (fam)
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serrated, notched
cranté
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a scoundrel
une canaille, une crapule
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an ampersand
une esperluette
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a uvula
une luette, une uvule
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osmosis
une osmose
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to dissect
disséquer
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ivy
le lierre
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to plow
labourer
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a drowsiness
une somnolence
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an addiction
une dépendance
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to wean off
détourner qqn de qqch; faire perdre l’habitude de qqch à qqn
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a springboard, a diving board
un tremplin
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a heap, a mound
une monticule
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a dowry
une dot
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thick (re: hair, accent)
fourni
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an appeal (legal)
un appel, un pourvoi
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a garbage dump
une décharge
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a pitfall, a hazard
une embûche
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bittersweet
aigre-doux
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to answer tit-for-tat
répondre du tac au tac
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stupendous, amazing (fam)
mirobolant (fam)