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Vocabulary 3 Flashcards

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la scéne du crime

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the crime scene

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une empreinte digitale

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a finger print

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prémédité

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premeditated

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une piste

Il ne sait pas trop quelle piste suivre.

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lead (among other meanings)

He doesn’t know which lead to follow.

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être mal à l’aise

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to be ill at ease

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le passé

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the past

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un mobile

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a motive

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mobile (adj)

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mobile

moveable

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une bagarre

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fight, brawl

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interrompre

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to interupt

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abréger

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to abridge

to shorten

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le meurtrier

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murderer

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une infraction

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a break-in

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un agresseur

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an aggressor, attacker

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fouiller

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to search

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un indice

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a clue

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trucider

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to kill with a blade

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un casier judiciaire

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a criminal record

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lors de l’interrogatoire…

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during the investigation…

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interroger

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to interrogate

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un interrogatoire

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an interrogation

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la justesse

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accuracy

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de justesse

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barely

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sordide (adj)

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sordid

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un détournement

une affaire sordide de détournement de fonds

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misappropriation

a sordid affair involving mishandling of funds

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incarcérer

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to encarcerate

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une amende

une forte amende

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a fine

a heavy fine

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l’innocence (f)

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innocence

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un instinct

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an instinct

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faillible (adj)

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fallible

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faillir

elle a failli mourir

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to fail to honor a commitment
to just fail to

she just about died

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infaillible

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infallible

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33
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une liason extra-conjugale

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an affair

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élucider

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to solve

to elucidate

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35
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un crime non élucidé

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unsolved crime

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rouvrir

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to reopen

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le dossier

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file, case

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un bout de pizza

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a piece of pizza

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une théorie

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a theory

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40
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resoudre

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to resolve

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une intrigue policière

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a detective mystery

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le cuistot (colloquial)

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the chef

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Ensuite, elle l’a fait chanter, et il l’a abattue.

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Later, she blackmailed him and he killed her.

Lit: made him sing

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un témoin

un témoin gênant

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a witness

a toublesome witness

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faire accuser

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to incriminate

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soit…..soit….

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either….or….

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le pot-aux-roses (idiomatic)

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the scam

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pendant que

Ils sont entrés pendant que nous dormions.

A

as, while

They came in while we were sleeping.

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une panne de courant

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a blackout

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la cour de récréation

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recess courtyard

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en profiter

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to make the most of it

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un bonhomme de neige

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a snowman

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haut comme trois pommes (idiom)

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very small

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le mollet

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the calf (of a person’s leg)

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tant et si bien

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so much so

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un pan

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a panel, section

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éclater d’un fou-rire

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to burst into mad laughter

58
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mou, molle

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soft, jelly-like

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un piéton

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a pedestrian

60
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Une discussion sur les temps

A

A discussion on the tenses

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une collègue

A

a colleague

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dans mes pattes

A

underfoot

Lit: in my paws

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embêter

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to bother

to bore

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embêtant

A

boring

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le manque de…

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the lack of…

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un narrateur

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a narrator

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à la limite de

C’était à la limite du ridicule pour moi.

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borderline

It was borderline ridiculous as far as I’m concerned.

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le ridicule

A

the ridiculous

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la classe sociale

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social class

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les classes sociales élevées

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the upper social classes

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un maître chanteur

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a blackmailer

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maîtriser

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to know, master (not as strong a meaning as in English)

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les ouvrages classiques (m)

A

classic works

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la littérature

A

literature

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issus de

A

coming from

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le milieu social

A

social environment

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le marché

A

the process

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l’apprentissage (m)

A

learning

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lucratif (adj)

A

lucrative

80
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délaisser

A

to neglect

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formel (adj)

le language formel

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formal

the formal language

82
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ramener

A

to bring back

83
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vénéneux (adj)

vénéneuse

A

poisonous

84
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paître

envoyer paître (idiomatic)

A

to graze (as cattle graze)

to send someone packing

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un cholchique

A

a crocus

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un cerne

violâtres comme leur cerner

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a ring

violet like their ring
referring to the crocus flower that has a purple ring

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un fracas

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a crash, din, roar

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hoqueter

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to hiccup

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une paupière

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an eyelid

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dément (adj)

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demented, crazy

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meugler

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to moo (like a cow)

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l’actrice (f)

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actress

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supposer

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to suppose, assume

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ce coup-ci

A

this time

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le ragot (slang)

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gossip, scandal

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par conséquent

A

therefore

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discret (adj)

discrète

A

discrete

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une gaffe

A

a blunder

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sûrement

A

surely

100
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on s’y attendait tous

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we were all expecting it.

101
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sinon

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if not

otherwise…

102
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à bout de souffle

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out of breath

103
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à tel point que

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so much so

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