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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

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humilier

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imprisoned

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détenu

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spoilt, damaged

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avarié

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to dismember, to carve up, tear limb-from-limb

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dépecer

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to visit

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démarcher

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a walk, a gait, a step; an approach

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une démarche

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a recovery, rise, increase

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un relèvement

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worried, preoccupied

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soucieux, soucieuse

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to challenge

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récuser

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declining, failing

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défaillant

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to mark with dots, to dot

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pointiller

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remedial learning session/classes

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le ratrappage

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to land, to touch down; to wind up (fam.)

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atterrir

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words

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des propos (m.)

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to let out, to unfurl, to drop

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larguer

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discontent, unrest

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le mécontentement

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to face up to things

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faire face (à)

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to disavow, to repudiate

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désavouer

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to cut down, knock down, shoot down

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abattre

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a stretcher

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une civière

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to be equipped with

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être muni(e) de

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a handgun

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une arme de poing

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a fist

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un poing

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a bursting/storming in

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une irruption

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shocked

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choqué

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moved, affected, agitated

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ému

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a sample (blood/tissue)

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un prélèvement

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beforehand, previously

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auparavant

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certainly, indeed

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certes

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a difference, a discrepancy

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un écart

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to recapture, to catch up with

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rattraper

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mean, petty

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mesquin, mesquine

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to wedge, to prop up

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caler

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misinterpretation, mistranslation

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un contresens

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to give a spanking to someone

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donner une fessée à qqn; fesser

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a water lily

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un nénuphar

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to remain

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demeurer

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a dwarf; dwarf (adj.)

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un nain, une naine; nain, naine

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extremely rare, most unusual

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rarissime

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greenhouse

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une serre

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to be sarcastic (about)

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ironiser (sur)

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a curious onlooker

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un badaud, une badaude

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to draw a crowd

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attirer les badauds

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customary, usual

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coutumier, coutumière

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a practical joke, a hoax

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un canular

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to stream, to drip

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ruisseler (à propos: eau, sang, sueur)

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water table or groundwater

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la nappe phréatique

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hastily, in a rush

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à la hâte

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as for

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quant à

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riddled with bullets

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criblé de balles

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whoever

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quiconque

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to tow

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remorquer

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the tide

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une marée

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a badge

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un écusson

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to stretch, to widen

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s’étendre

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to harden, to toughen

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durcir

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loudspeaker

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un haut-parleur (aspiré)

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to thrash, to criticize harshly

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fustiger

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hurriedly, hastily

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précipitamment

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a cranberry

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une airelle

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an equation

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une équation

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a fault, a flaw

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une faille

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a pattern, a diagram

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un schéma

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straightaway, at once

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de ce pas

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prey

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une proie

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to live it up, to paint the town red

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faire la nouba

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a magnet

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un aimant

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to bite

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mordre

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the gums

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les gencives (f.)

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hoarse, cracked; nuts (fam.)

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fêlé

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to fly off/to fly away

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envoler

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a rearview mirror

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un rétroviseur

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nod/shake of the head

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un hochement

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idleness, laziness [fam.]

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la flemme

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a (four-leaf) clover

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un trèfle (à quatre feuilles)

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a thought at the back of one’s mind, an ulterior motive

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une arrière-pensée

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equestrian

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hippique

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sometimes X, sometimes Y

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tantôt X, tantôt Y

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hope (formal)

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une espérance

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to burst into flames, to be fired up

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s’enflammer

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torn to bits

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déchiqueté

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to suppress, to hold back

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réprimer

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fullness

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une plénitude

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already

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d’ores et déjà

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sheet metal

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la tôle

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to lie in ambush

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embusquer

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pavement, sidewalk

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le pavé

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rubber

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le caoutchouc

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to undo (clothing)

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découdre

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to fight

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en découdre

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bangs, fringe

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une frange

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a person speaking or being spoken to; a speaker

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un interlocuteur ; une interlocutrice

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a bathrobe

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un peignoir

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an apron

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un tablier

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to draw (a gun/sword), to unsheathe

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dégainer

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a joker, a loser

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un rigolo, une rigolote

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stark naked

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à poil

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a sewer

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un égout

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to peel

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peler

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to light a match

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frotter/craquer une allumette

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a whistle (the sound)

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un sifflement

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a whistle (the device)

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un sifflet

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a pitcher

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un lanceur, une lanceuse

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a catcher

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un attrapeur

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(to come back) empty-handed

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(rentrer) bredouille

129
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a hit (song)

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un tube

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a filing cabinet

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un fichier

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scissors

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des ciseaux (m.)

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a guy

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un gars, un type, un mec

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to mill/swarm about

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grouiller

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a disguise

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un déguisement

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in disguise

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déguisé

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to lick

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lécher

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whipped cream

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la crème fouettée

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a riddle

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une devinette; une énigme

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to bet

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parier

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to win/lose a bet

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gagner/perdre un pari

141
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to ogle

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lorgner

142
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to pirouette, to spin around

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virevolter

143
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a guarantee

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une garantie

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relaxed, casual

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décontracté

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even (not même)

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voire

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opposing (team/army)

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adverse

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skillful

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habile, adroit

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by the clock; a stopwatch

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chrono, un chrono

149
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rage, fury, passion

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une fureur

150
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the winnings

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les gains (m.)

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a paper/plastic cup

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un gobelet

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unavoidable, inevitable

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inéluctable

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ice shelf

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une banquise

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a hinge, a turning point

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une charnière

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unpublished

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inédit

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dazzling, stunning

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éblouissant

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a complet set, an outfit

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une panoplie

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a gesture, nonverbal communication

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une gestuelle

159
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to plate, to veneer

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plaquer

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to call for, to require

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requérir

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to repeal, to rescind (legal)

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abroger

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wet

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mouillé

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soaked

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trempé

164
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a leak

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une fuite

165
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to go on a tangent

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partir dans une digression

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to poke

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donner un coup à

167
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to feel (an emotion)

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ressentir, éprouver

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screening

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le dépistage

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a pulley

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une poulie

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to reopen

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rouvrir

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to gauge

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jauger

172
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an icicle

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un glaçon

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a bubble

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une bulle, un bouillon

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to mummify

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momifier; se momifier

175
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to hang around, to loiter

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rôder

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to lurk

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tapir, se tapir

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underprivileged

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déshérité

178
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well and truly

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bel et bien

179
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a moving part, a cog

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un rouage

180
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to be on the alert

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être sur le qui-vive

181
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to bypass

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contourner

182
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an hourglass, an egg timer

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un sablier

183
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small talk

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le papotage [fam], le bavardage

184
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a feature/full length film

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un long-métrage

185
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undergrowth

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les broussailles (f), le sous-bois

187
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a pack (of dogs)

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une meute

188
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a pack (sports), a platoon/squad

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un peloton

189
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basil

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le basilic

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sifted

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tamisé

191
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a pod (bean/pea), a clove (of garlic), a (vanilla) bean

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une gousse

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powdered sugar

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le sucre glace

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starch

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la fécule

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a lump

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un grumeau

French Vocabulary - Encountered (22 decks)

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