Vocab 20 Flashcards

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immeasurable

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incommensurable

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2
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scapel

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un bistouri

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3
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overlapping

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imbriqué

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4
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a short nightgown

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une nuisette

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5
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to feel giddy

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avoir le tournis

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6
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a quilt

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une courtepointe

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7
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(to make) a sudden subject change

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(faire) un coq-à-l’âne

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8
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dumbfounded, stunned

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éberlué

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9
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in the presence of

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par-devers

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10
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to make a scene

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faire un esclandre

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11
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an abundance, a proloferation

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un foisonnement

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12
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an interlacing

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un entrelacs

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13
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a piece of gossip

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un commérage

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14
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a bud

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un bourgeon

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15
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to warp, to buckle; to distort

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gauchir

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16
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degradation, debasement

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un avilissement

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17
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biting, caustic, bitter (cold)

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mordant

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18
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a cat door; a ventilation hole

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une chatière

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19
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gallows

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une potence

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20
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to go home

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regagner ses pénates

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21
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potbellied

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ventru

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22
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to pinch (steal)/swipe (fam)

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faucher (fam)

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23
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a moray eel

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une murène

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24
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fragrance, miasma

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un effluve

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hatching (drawing)
une hachure
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temple (anatomy)
la tempe
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to knock/bang together
entrechoquer
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a splinter (wood/bone)
une esquille
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a glob of spit (v fam)
un glaviot (t fam)
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to have more than one’s fair share (of), to have more than enough (of)
avoir son compte (de)
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a reprimand, a rebuke (form)
une semonce (sou)
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joints; knuckles
une jointure; des jointures des doigts
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a marble
une bille
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to carry/wash along
charrier
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to shout oneself hoarse
s’époumoner
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a head (fam)
une caboche (fam)
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little quirks, peculiar ways
les petites manies
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the subconscious
le subconscient
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a grimace
un rictus
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bravado, defiance
la bravade
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painful numbness from cold
l’onglée
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pivot, hub, crux
un pivot
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to thrash about, to struggle
se démener
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to stretch, overstretch, to distend
distendre
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he cares nothing about (lit)
il n’a cure de (litt)
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death (lit)
le trépas (litt)
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the rib cage
le gril costal
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disheveled, frantic
échevelé
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foliage, leaves
une frondaison
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a coil (of smoke)
une volute
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the back of the knee
le jarret
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to release /set free; to relieve
délivrer
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a streak
une coulure
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foamy/frothy (lit)
écumant (litt)
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an edge (of the woods)
une orée (du bois)
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a blaze (lot)
une fournaise (litt)
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glowing red
rougeoyant
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to shrivel up
se racornir
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a piece of soot
une escarbille
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a curse (lit)
une imprécation (litt)
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skinny, emaciated (lit)
étique (litt)
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to water (an eye); to snivel/wimper
larmoyer
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a plane
un méplat
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to stink, to stink up (a room), to stink of
empester
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back light
un contre-jour
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a knick-knack , a trinket
une babiole
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lascivious, lewd
lascif
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the depths (of one’s soul) (lit)
le tréfonds (litt)
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rancid
rance
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arm in arm
bras dessus bras dessous
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a special dispensation/exemption
une dérogation
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feasibility
une faisabilité
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sickly sweet, honey-like
mielleux
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to make proud (lit)
enorgueillir (litt)
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blooming, radiant
épanoui
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costs
les dépens (m)
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to become disillusioned
déchanter
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busy
affairé
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healthy, beneficial
salutaire
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a half-measure
une demi-mesure
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to shout at
apostropher
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a slum, a hob
un taudis
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a breast, an udder
une mamelle
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a gang of kids/brats (fam)
une marmaille (fam)
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a maggot
un asticot
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an awning, a glass canopy
une marquise
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ponp (lit)
les fastes (litt)
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sumptuousness, splendor
le faste
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a bunch (e.g. of raisons)
une grappe
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a gaslight
un bec de gaz
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worn out/exhausted
rompu
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to nibble/chew at
mordiller
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knowledge, experience
l’acquis (m)
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established, aquired
acquis
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to growl
feuler
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stupidity
une ânerie
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don’t be so sure!
détrempez-vous
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crumbly, friable (earth)
meuble
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a rumbling (thunder)
un roulement
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a blooming/flowering (lit)
une efflorescence (litt)
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dreamlike (form)
onirique (sou)
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trash
les immondices (f)
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to instill/inspire (form)
insuffler (sou)
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cinema
le septième art
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to dust, to dust off
épousseter
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fair’s fair
c’est donnant-donnant
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to prune
élaguer
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braggart, swaggerer
une bravache
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lace
guipure
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abundant
foisonnant
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to get used to
se faire à
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to take the rim off (tire)
déjanté
113
missing; we’re short one x
en moins; il y a un X en moins
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Posh, smart (fam)
huppé (fam)
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a scrapping
une raclure
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to setup the scene/scenery
planter le décor
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to court/woo someone
faire la cour à qqn
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country/land (lit)
une contrée (litt)
119
a tuning fork
un diaposon
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meanders, twists and turns
des méandres (m)
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to rattle, to shake
bringuebaler
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a storage room
un cagibi
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a legless person
un/une cul-de-jatte
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filling, stuffing, fluff
une bourre
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to pig out (v fam)
se taper la cloche (t fam)
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the munchies
la foncedalle
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spirit, liveliness
un entrain
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spirit, liveliness
un entrain
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an offender
un contravenant; une contravenante
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fond
friand, friande
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stale
rassis, rassise