Vocabulaire Flashcards
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Tirer
Être tiré de
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To pull; to draw
To be based on
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La sagesse
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Wisdom
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Surgir
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To emerge; to appear suddenly; to burst out
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Parvenir
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To achieve; to attain; to reach (a goal); to succeed in
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La justesse
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L’exactitude
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Le réalisateur
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Director, producer
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La pavillon
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A single family home
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Une gare routière
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A bus station
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Le chagrin
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Grief, sorrow
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La perte
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Loss
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Claquer
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- To slam (door)
- To crack (whip)
- To chatter (teeth)
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Être sur le qui-vive
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To be on the look out
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Renverser
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To spill; to knock over
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La tenue
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An outfit (clothing)
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Remporter
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Gagner
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Avec soin
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With care; carefully
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Un évier
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Sink
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Couler
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- To sink
- To leak
- To flow (river)
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Tremper
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- To soak
2. To dunk; to dip
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Écœurer
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To make [sb] feel sick; to make [sb] nauseated
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Longer
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To travel along; to go the length of
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Une épopée
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Epic; epic poem; saga
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Désormais
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From now on; henceforth
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S’impliquer
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To get involved; to be involved
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Volontiers
Willingly, gladly
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En revanche
On the other hand
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Entourer
To circle
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Convoyer
Escorter; accompagner
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Le palmarès
Prize list
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La parure
Jewelry
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Écraser
To squash; To smush; to flatten
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La poussière
Dust, dirt
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Le pourtour
The perimeter, the rim, the edge, the circumference
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Fendre
| Fendu
To crack; to split; to dent
| Cracked, split; dented
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Dorer
To gild
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La colle
Glue; adhesive; paste
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Une fente
A crack, split, gap
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Les frais (m.)
Cost
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Concerner
To pertain to
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Le poignet
Wrist
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La cour
Courtyard; schoolyard; playground; court
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Briller
To shine; sparkle; gleam
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La panoplie
An array; collection; display
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Décerner
To award
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Prévoir
To predict
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Gérer
To manage; to handle; to deal with
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Acheminer
To transport; to send
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Je n'en reviens pas!
I can't believe it; I can't get over it.
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À merveille
Wonderfully; like a dream
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Hurler
To yell; to shout; to scream; to wail; to howl
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Se diriger (vers)
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To find your way;
to head for;
to head towards;
to make for;
to gravitate towards
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Se précipiter
To rush; to dash; to race
| To throw oneself; to leap
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Une lutte
A struggle; a conflict
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Tendance
Tendency;
Trendy
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Un syndicat
A trade-union
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Une échelle
A. à l'échelle
B. à l'échelle mondiale
A ladder; a scale
A. to scale
B. Globally; on a global scale; worldwide
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Le fuseau horaire
Time zone
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Dégourdir
To stretch; to loosen
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Engourdir
To numb
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Côtoyer
To rub shoulders with
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Parcourir
To travel;
To scan;
To browse
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Porter
To bring; to take;
To carry;
To wear
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Rejoindre
To meet; to join;
To get to;
To reach
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Un parcours
Une route
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Qu'en est-il de . . .
What about, how about . . .
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Brûler
To burn
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Par-dessus tout
Most of all; above all
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Fouiller (dans)
To search;
To go through;
To rummage about in;
To frisk
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Un grenier
An attic; a loft
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Prometteur
Promising; encouraging
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Patienter
To wait patiently
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Répandre
To broadcast; to publicize
To spread; to scatter
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Jusqu'alors
Up until then; until then
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Un recul
A. avoir du recul
B. prendre du recul
A step back; a postponement; a drop
A. to have perspective
B. To put things into perspective
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Une vente
Sales
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Une attente
An expectation
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Un concurrent
A competitor; a contestant
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S'abonner à
To subscribe to
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Cocher
To make a check mark; to check off
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Un parti pris / de parti pris
A bias / biased
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Débourser
Dépenser
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S'envoler
To fly away; to take off
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Un quotidien
Un hebdomadaire
Un bimensuel
Un trimestriel
Un semestriel
Daily (newspaper, publication)
A weekly
2x / month
Q. 3 mos.
Q. 6 mos.
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Un éloge
Compliment; praise
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Tarir (de)
To run dry; to dry up; to run out of
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De plus en plus
More and more
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Grâce à
À cause de
Because of/ owing to (+)
Because of/ owing to (-)
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Une dépense
Expense; spending; expenditure
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Découler de
To stem from; to result from; to ensue from
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(Un) or
1. But, yet
| 2. Gold
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Le chômage
Unemployment
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Le talon
Heel
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Un préposé
An employee
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S'adresser à
Go and see; ask; speak to
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Une poignée (de)
A handle;
A handful of . . .
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Le carrelage
Tiles/tiling
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Velu(e)
Poilu(e)
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Engloutir
To devour; to wolf down; to gobble up
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S'agiter
To twist and turn; to writhe
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Pianoter
To drum
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Songer à
To consider; to reflect on; to think about
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Tâcher de
To try; to attempt to
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La mimique
An impression; an imitation
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Le fauteuil
An armchair; a chair; a seat
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Se pencher
A. Se pencher vers l'avant
To lean
A. To lean forward
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Outrepasser
To overstep (dépasser)
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Envahir
To invade; to overrun
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Donner une poignée de main
To shake hands
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Dévisager
Regarder fixement; river les yeux
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Miner
To explode;
To sap, eat away at; wear down;
To undermine
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Combler
Remplir
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Se soucier de
To be concerned with/about
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Surveiller
To follow;
To monitor;
To keep an eye on
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Une entrevue
Un entretien
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Convier
Inviter; pousse; inciter
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Se détourner
To turn away from;
To look away;
To turn your head
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Se moucher
To blow your nose
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Ainsi
Like this; like that; like so
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Vérité en deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au-delà
What's true for one place (time) is false for another.
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En deçà de
On this side of
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Au-delà
On the other side; beyond
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Cracher
To spit
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La méconnaissance
Misreading; ignorance
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La contrainte
Constraint; subjugation; obligation; coercion
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Une angoisse
Extreme panic, fear, dread
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Un internat
Internship
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Une plaie
A wound; a cut
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Également
Aussi
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Aussitôt (que)
Immediately
| Dès
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Effectuer
To carry out; to perform; to conduct (research)
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Se prendre
To take yourself; to think yourself
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Avoir recours à
To resort to
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À peine à
Hardly, barely, scarcely
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Aveugle
Blind (adj)
A blind person
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Vaincre
To vanquish; to defeat
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Au sein de
Dans; à l'intérieur
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Tendre
To hand
To hold out; to offer
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Apaiser
To pacify; to calm; to calm down; to appease; to quench
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Mépriser
Dédaigner
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Se serrer
To tighten, to contract, to clench;
To squeeze yourself (dans)
To cuddle up to (contre)
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Abîmer
To damage; To ruin; to wreck; to spoil
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Une larme
A tear (weeping)
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Se venger
To take your revenge; to avenge yourself
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Se conter de
To be satisfied with;
To content yourself with;
To settle for; to make do with
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À l'écart
Apart; isolated
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Se mettre à (faire)
To start, to begin (doing) something
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Parer
To adorn
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Affolé
Distraught; panicked; upset; erratic
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Étaler
To spread
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S'affairer
To keep yourself busy
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Autrement
Sinon
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Broyer
To crush
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Rétrécir
To shrink
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Une myrtille
Un bleuet
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Une arête
A fishbone
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Ratisser
To rake
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Arroser
To water; to irrigate
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Sceller
To seal (an envelope)
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Conquérir
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Conquiers
Conquiers
Conquiert
Conquérons
Conquérez
Conquièrent
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To conquer; to win over
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L'actualité
| Actuel
The news; what's happening; current events
| Current; up-to-date
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Impitoyable
Brutal; unforgiving; merciless
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Lectorat
Readership
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Disposer de
To have available; to have at one's disposal
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Croissant (adj)
Waxing; increasing
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À l'égard de
With regard to
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Une offre
A bid
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Une cible
A target
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Un sondage
A survey, a poll
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Gêné
Embarrassed; awkward
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S'en aller
To be off; To run along; to go away
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Une chipie
A brat; little brat; cow; bitch; little minx
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De peur que / de crainte que + subjonctif
For fear that; fearing that
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À moins que + subjonctif
Unless
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Qui que + subjonctif
Anyone; anybody; (regardless of who)
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Quoi que + subjonctif
Whatever
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Bien que / quoique + subjonctif
Although; even though
Even if; though
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À supposer que + subjonctif
Assuming that; supposing that
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À condition que / pourvu que + subjonctif
Provided that; on the condition that
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En attendant que + subjonctif
Until such time as; while waiting for
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Jusqu'à ce que + subjonctif
Until
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Avant que + subjonctif
Before
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Pour que / afin que / de sorte que / de façon que + subjonctif
So that; in order that
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Aborder
To approach; to reach
To broach; to address; to tackle (a subject)
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(Se) roder
(To settle in)
To run (the engine); to warm up
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Un songe
A daydream
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Un prêtre
A priest
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Un avenir
A future
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(Se) débarrasser
(To get rid of)
To clear (the table)
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Un antipode
The polar opposite
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Refouler
To push back; to drive back; to suppress
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Se démarquer de
To distinguish yourself; to distance yourself; to stand out from
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Un maître
Master; teacher
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Se demander
To wonder
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Constater
To note, notice, to observe
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S'éloigner (de)
To move away; to pull away
To get away; to grow apart
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Gonfler
To swell; to inflate; to annoy
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Un refroidissement
A cooling down
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Une déesse
Goddess
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S'en faire
To worry; to make something out of it
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Relier
Relate (connect)
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La portée
Range, reach
| Impact, significance
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Sourd
Deaf;
Dull, muffled;
Faint; muted
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Décliner
To state, to give
To offer a range of;
To decline, to grow weaker
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Préconiser
To advise;
To recommend;
To encourage
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Prôner
To advocate;
| To extol
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Faire miroiter qqch à qqn
To lure [sb] with [sth];
To lure with the promise of;
To dangle [sth] in front of [sb]
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Le sous-entendu
Innuendo, double entendre
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Autrui
Others; other people
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Réconfortante
Heartwarming
