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1
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a swing

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une balançoire

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a procession

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un cortège

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a slope/ hill

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une pente

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a pebble

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un caillou

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to brown (cooking)

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rissoler

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a hearse

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un corbillard

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river/ interminable

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un fleuve

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a find, discovery, treasure

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une trouvaille

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9
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the hay

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le foin

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felt/ a felt-tip pen

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un feutre

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to peck/ nibble at

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picorer

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12
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the hall/ aisle

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le couloir

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a pond

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un étang

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a bellflower (campanula)

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une campanule

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a stump/ family origin

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une souche

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to dig

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creuser

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a tailor

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un tailleur

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a stone

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une pierre

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19
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a vagrant

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un clochard

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20
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a partition

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une cloison

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21
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a small boat

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une barque

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22
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run aground (ship), beached (whale) washed-up (debris) / (figuratively) who wound up

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échoué

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23
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second-hand bookseller

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bouquiniste

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24
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bulging

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bombé

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25
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smooth (voice, manner)

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suave

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26
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to bubble

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mousser

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27
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scale (fish), fragment

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écaille

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28
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to crackle

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grésiller

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29
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a light bulb

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une ampoule

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30
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a willow tree

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un saule

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31
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the sweat

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la sueur

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32
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to chew

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mâcher

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33
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a bear

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un ours

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34
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to glide, soar, daydream

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planer

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35
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to rip up

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déchirer

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36
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a belt/ waist

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un ceinture

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37
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a barn owl

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une chouette effraie

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38
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daffodil

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une jonquille

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39
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a notebook

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un carnet

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40
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the undergrowth

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le sous-bois

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41
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a meadow

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un pré

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42
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to cover

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housser

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43
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to solidify

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durcir

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44
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frozen

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gelé

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45
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a fallow deer

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un daim

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46
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to link

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relier

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47
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a scarf

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une écharpe

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48
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the sap/ lifeblood

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la sève

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49
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the removal/ tearing off

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l’arrachement (m)

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50
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a blackbird

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un merle

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51
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exasperating

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soûlant, saoulant

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52
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to cough

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tousser

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53
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panic

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affoler

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54
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a trade fair

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une foire

55
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a trap

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un piège

56
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a fox

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un renard

57
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the jaw

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la mâchoire

58
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to rumble/ reprimand

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gronder

59
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a run away

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une fugue

60
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a sparrowhawk

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un épervier

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a goose

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une oie

62
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the armour

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la cuirasse

63
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to hurtle down

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dévaler

64
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a hill

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une colline

65
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a hole

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un trou

66
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a squirt

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une giclée

67
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the recovery

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la guérison

68
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to sail/ wander, drift (thoughts)

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voguer

69
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hair (sing.)

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la chevelure

70
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a willow tree

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un saule

71
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an octopus

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la pieuvre

72
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the foliage

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le feuillage

73
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to recount

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conter

74
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a spurt/ gush

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un jaillissement

75
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a paving stone

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une dalle

76
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magical

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féerique

77
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a hammer

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un marteau

78
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the handcuffs

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les menottes (f)

79
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lighting

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éclairage

80
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a cliff

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une falaise

81
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the murder

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le meurtre

82
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a wild rose

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un églantier

83
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a godess

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une déesse

84
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to search

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fouiller

85
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to move aside/ take away/ spread

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écarter

86
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whispering

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chuchotement

87
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to rot

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pourrir

88
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a beam

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une poutre

89
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a crib

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un berceau

90
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a buttock

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une fesse

91
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the spine

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l’échine (f)

92
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the protection

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la tutelle

93
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a pebble

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un galet

94
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to sway/ prance about

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dandiner / se dandiner

95
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a nail (metal) / highlight

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un clou

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a leg of lamb

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un gigot

97
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a thumb

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un pouce

98
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charity/ favour

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l’aumône (f)

99
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in all directions

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à la ronde

100
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the chin

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le menton

101
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to submerge/ engulf

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engloutir

102
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to gather

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cueillir

103
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the wisteria

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la glycine

104
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a sense, wave

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une onde

105
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a target

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une cible

106
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a fern

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une fougère

107
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a root

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une racine

108
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a bucket

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un seau

109
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the haze

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la brume

110
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the skull

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the crâne

111
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a skeleton

A

un squelette

112
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to wade/ trudge

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patauger

113
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a fairy/ fairyland

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une féerie

114
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to bang

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cogner

115
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a drum

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un tambour

116
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an axe

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une hache

117
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to brush past

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frôler

118
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to flatten

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plaquer

119
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the rust

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la rouille

120
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soûler

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make (sb) drunk

121
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a marble

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une bille

122
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drowning

A

la noyade

123
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the steam

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la buée

124
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a fist

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un poing

125
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a cherry tree

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un cerisier

126
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a droplet

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une gouttelette

127
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to elect

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élire

128
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to tense

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crisper

129
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the steel

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l’acier (m)

130
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pagan

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païen

131
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spitefulness/ maliciousness

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la méchanceté

132
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a groom

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un palefrenier

133
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cowardly/ lily-livered

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poltron

134
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to be three sheets to the wind (drunk idiom)

A

Avoir du vent dans les voiles