Vocab 4 Flashcards

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a breakthrough, a clearing

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une percée

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a patent, a certificate

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un brevet

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to pierce, to push through

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percer

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(subway) train

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une rame (de métro)

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the paramedics

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le Samu (service d’aide médicale d’urgence)

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raging, wild, unbridled

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déchaîné

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a celebrity, a star

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une vedette

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a case, a chest

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une caisse

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a shortcut

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un raccourci

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a prerequisite, precondition

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un préalable

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preliminary, preparatory

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préalable

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recourse, resort

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un recours

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to insert

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insérer

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metropolitan area (city + suburbs)

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une agglomération

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a seaman, sailor

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un marin

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a peasant, a farmer

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un paysan, une paysanne

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to become breathless, to weaken, to dry up

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s’essouffler

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clearly, distinctly

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nettement

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to unseat, to unhorse

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désarçonner

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to wonder about something

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s’interroger sur quelque chose

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a refusal, a rebuff

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un refus

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pity, compassion

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l’apitoiement (m.)

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to pick (out), to sort, to select

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trier

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depressing, disheartening

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déprimant

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to humiliate, to shame
humilier
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imprisoned
détenu
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spoilt, damaged
avarié
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to dismember, to carve up, tear limb-from-limb
dépecer
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to visit
démarcher
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a walk, a gait, a step; an approach
une démarche
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a recovery, rise, increase
un relèvement
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worried, preoccupied
soucieux, soucieuse
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to challenge
récuser
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declining, failing
défaillant
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to mark with dots, to dot
pointiller
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remedial learning session/classes
le ratrappage
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to land, to touch down; to wind up (fam.)
atterrir
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words
des propos (m.)
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to let out, to unfurl, to drop
larguer
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discontent, unrest
le mécontentement
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to face up to things
faire face (à)
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to disavow, to repudiate
désavouer
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to cut down, knock down, shoot down
abattre
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a stretcher
une civière
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to be equipped with
être muni(e) de
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a handgun
une arme de poing
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a fist
un poing
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a bursting/storming in
une irruption
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shocked
choqué
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moved, affected, agitated
ému
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a sample (blood/tissue)
un prélèvement
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beforehand, previously
auparavant
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certainly, indeed
certes
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a difference, a discrepancy
un écart
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to recapture, to catch up with
rattraper
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mean, petty
mesquin, mesquine
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to wedge, to prop up
caler
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misinterpretation, mistranslation
un contresens
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to give a spanking to someone
donner une fessée à qqn; fesser
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a water lily
un nénuphar
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to remain
demeurer
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a dwarf; dwarf (adj.)
un nain, une naine; nain, naine
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extremely rare, most unusual
rarissime
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greenhouse
une serre
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to be sarcastic (about)
ironiser (sur)
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a curious onlooker
un badaud, une badaude
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to draw a crowd
attirer les badauds
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customary, usual
coutumier, coutumière
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a practical joke, a hoax
un canular
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to stream, to drip
ruisseler (à propos: eau, sang, sueur)
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water table or groundwater
la nappe phréatique
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hastily, in a rush
à la hâte
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as for
quant à
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riddled with bullets
criblé de balles
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whoever
quiconque
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to tow
remorquer
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the tide
une marée
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a badge
un écusson
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to stretch, to widen
s'étendre
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to harden, to toughen
durcir
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loudspeaker
un haut-parleur (aspiré)
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to thrash, to criticize harshly
fustiger
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hurriedly, hastily
précipitamment
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a cranberry
une airelle
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an equation
une équation
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a fault, a flaw
une faille
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a pattern, a diagram
un schéma
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straightaway, at once
de ce pas
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prey
une proie
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to live it up, to paint the town red
faire la nouba
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a magnet
un aimant
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to bite
mordre
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the gums
les gencives (f.)
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hoarse, cracked; nuts (fam.)
fêlé
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to fly off/to fly away
envoler
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a rearview mirror
un rétroviseur
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nod/shake of the head
un hochement
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idleness, laziness [fam.]
la flemme
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a (four-leaf) clover
un trèfle (à quatre feuilles)
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a thought at the back of one's mind, an ulterior motive
une arrière-pensée
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equestrian
hippique
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sometimes X, sometimes Y
tantôt X, tantôt Y
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hope (formal)
une espérance
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to burst into flames, to be fired up
s'enflammer
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torn to bits
déchiqueté
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to suppress, to hold back
réprimer
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fullness
une plénitude
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already
d'ores et déjà
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sheet metal
la tôle
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to lie in ambush
embusquer
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pavement, sidewalk
le pavé
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rubber
le caoutchouc
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to undo (clothing)
découdre
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to fight
en découdre
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bangs, fringe
une frange
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a person speaking or being spoken to; a speaker
un interlocuteur ; une interlocutrice
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a bathrobe
un peignoir
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an apron
un tablier
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to draw (a gun/sword), to unsheathe
dégainer
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a joker, a loser
un rigolo, une rigolote
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stark naked
à poil
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a sewer
un égout
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to peel
peler
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to light a match
frotter/craquer une allumette
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a whistle (the sound)
un sifflement
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a whistle (the device)
un sifflet
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a pitcher
un lanceur, une lanceuse
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a catcher
un attrapeur
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(to come back) empty-handed
(rentrer) bredouille
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a hit (song)
un tube
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a filing cabinet
un fichier
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scissors
des ciseaux (m.)
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a guy
un gars, un type, un mec
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to mill/swarm about
grouiller
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a disguise
un déguisement
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in disguise
déguisé
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to lick
lécher
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whipped cream
la crème fouettée
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a riddle
une devinette; une énigme
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to bet
parier
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to win/lose a bet
gagner/perdre un pari
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to ogle
lorgner
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to pirouette, to spin around
virevolter
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a guarantee
une garantie
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relaxed, casual
décontracté
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even (not même)
voire
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opposing (team/army)
adverse
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skillful
habile, adroit
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by the clock; a stopwatch
chrono, un chrono
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rage, fury, passion
une fureur
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the winnings
les gains (m.)
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a paper/plastic cup
un gobelet
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unavoidable, inevitable
inéluctable
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ice shelf
une banquise
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a hinge, a turning point
une charnière
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unpublished
inédit
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dazzling, stunning
éblouissant
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a complet set, an outfit
une panoplie
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a gesture, nonverbal communication
une gestuelle
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to plate, to veneer
plaquer
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to call for, to require
requérir
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to repeal, to rescind (legal)
abroger
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wet
mouillé
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soaked
trempé
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a leak
une fuite
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to go on a tangent
partir dans une digression
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to poke
donner un coup à
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to feel (an emotion)
ressentir, éprouver
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screening
le dépistage
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a pulley
une poulie
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to reopen
rouvrir
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to gauge
jauger
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an icicle
un glaçon
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a bubble
une bulle, un bouillon
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to mummify
momifier; se momifier
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to hang around, to loiter
rôder
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to lurk
tapir, se tapir
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underprivileged
déshérité
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well and truly
bel et bien
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a moving part, a cog
un rouage
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to be on the alert
être sur le qui-vive
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to bypass
contourner
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an hourglass, an egg timer
un sablier
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small talk
le papotage [fam], le bavardage
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a feature/full length film
un long-métrage
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undergrowth
les broussailles (f), le sous-bois
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a pack (of dogs)
une meute
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a pack (sports), a platoon/squad
un peloton
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basil
le basilic
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sifted
tamisé
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a pod (bean/pea), a clove (of garlic), a (vanilla) bean
une gousse
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powdered sugar
le sucre glace
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starch
la fécule
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a lump
un grumeau