Vocabulaire_4 Flashcards
Decapiter
Behead
Empoigner, saisir
To grasp
He quickly grasped the problem and found a solution.
Eradiquer, lutter contre qquch.
To stamp sth. out
The study proposes a plan of action to stamp out this phenomenon.
Horrible, macabre
Gruesome
A gruesome discovery
Mecontent
Disgruntled
The disgruntled clients are angry
Un lien => des liens
A tie => ties
He maintains strong ties with his country of origin.
Préalable
Prior
The candidate must have prior experience in a similar position.
Toucher une corde sensible
Struck a nerve
it has struck a nerve
Timide
Shy
Un repere, un jalon
A landmark
We use this point as landmark
Emblematique
Landmark
It’s a landmark decision
Tenace, opiniatre
Dogged
She’s a dogged worker
Aspirer a qqch => une aspiration
Yearn => a yearning
I felt a yearning to be back home.
He yearned for a simpler life
Intensifier
To step up
She stepped up her effort
Le couvre-feu
The curfew
The country declared a nationwide curfew
Severe, plus severe
Harsh, harsher
They allow regional officials to impose harsher restrictions on movement.
Un abri
A shelter
Hong Kong has long been a place of shelter for people escaping war.
En desordre, en vrac => une confusion
Helter-skelter => a helter skelter
Everything’s gone helter-skelter.
De façon discrète, sobrement
Understatedly
They were all understatedly dressed in black.
Un obstacle
A barrier
In a tolerant country your name is no barrier to success.
Envoyer, expedier =>l’envoi, l’expedition
Dispatch => the dispatch
After the dispatch of the files, I was satisfy
Indecis
Undecided
What you need to know about the undecided swing states
Monter en competence
improve my skills
Sous-estimé
Underrated
The effects are very underrated
Au vue de
As a result of
As a result of these developments, …
Accelerer
Speed up
This medicine will speed up the healing process.
Emboiter => imbriqué
nest => nested
The dolls nested inside each other.
Concis
Terse
I want to keep the article terse
Tandis que
Whereas
The push method is used in systems such as Graphite whereas the pull method is used by monitoring systems like Prometheus.
Tranché
Clear-cut
There is no clear-cut answer.
Soit
Either
They are either going to say yes, or no.
Se permettre, assumer
To afford
Only gamble with what you can afford to lose.
Durcir, se durcir
To harden
Positions harden
Exceptionnel, remarquable
Outstanding
It’s an outstanding work
Procedure pas a pas
A walkthrough
For this walkthrough, select Allow…
Les conséquences
The aftermath
We must be aware of the aftermath..
Remise en état
The remediation
This criterion refers to the total estimated cost of the remediation.
La durée
The timespan
Un graphique
A chart
The results are displayed in a chart.
Un biais
A skew
Fausser, devier
To skew
The execution delay skews the result
Tracer, planifier
To chart
The company is charting its future growth.
Calculer
Compute
The software computes the total automatically.
Diminuer, retrecir
To shrink
He has promised to shrink the public debt.
Perdu, gaspillé
Wasted
We may have wasted time in implementing measures,
Epineux, pointu
Spiky
Payer d’avance
Pay up-front
Do I pay up front or later?
Sous jacente
Underlying
The underlying cause
En cours
On going
You can also watch on-going issues.
Serieusement, De maniere fiable
Reliably
