Vocabulary 8 Flashcards
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le sigle
A
abbreviation
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mesquin (adj)
A
mean-minded, stingy
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tatillon (adj)
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nit-picking
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la magouille
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underhanded trick, deviousness
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grassouillet (adj)
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plump, chubby
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un minier
minier (adj)
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miner
mining
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flairer
flairer quelque chose de louche
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to sniff out
smell a rat
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la traîtrise
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treachery
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archané (adj)
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fierce, determined
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un travailleur
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worker
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travailleur (adj)
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hard-working
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le chevet
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bedside
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tapageur (adj)
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garish
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l’étalage (m)
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display
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le noyau
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pit, core, nucleus
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tarauder
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to tap
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fraîchement (adv)
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coolly
freshly, newly
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un trêve
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a truce, intermission
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une trousse
être aux trousses de quelqu’un (colloquial)
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a kit, pencil case
to be hot on the heels of someone
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une anguille
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an eel
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une envergure
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wingspan
span, stretch
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dispendieux (adj)
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expensive, extravagant
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coûteux (adj)
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costly
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une incitation à…
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an inducement to…
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incintatif (adj)
incitant, provacative
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piquer au vif (idiom)
to cut to the quick, to be stung by events
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capter
to capture
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l'écurie
sentir l'écurie (idiom)
stable, animal pen
to know one is nearly there
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faussement (adv)
wrongly, falsely
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le nouveau venu
| la nouvelle venue
newcomer
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étouffer
to smother, hold back
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sidéré
flabbergasted
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la hantise
haunt
| dread
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le ménagement
consideration, respectfulness
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les agissements (mp)
activities, goings-on
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imprenable
avec vue imprenable
impregnable, unassailable
with an unobstructable vue
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caler
to wedge, cushion, support
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une esquisse
a sketch
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la tôle
sheet metal
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trippeux (Québecois)
one who trips (has fun)
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la voirie
garbage dump, garbage collection
| road, rail and waterway network
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l'équipement
equipment, gear
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arracher
tear out
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l'ébène (f)
ebony
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un noyer (n)
noyer (vt)
a walnut
to drown (someone/something)
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aléatoire (adj)
random, unpredicatable
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endosser
```
to assume (a responsibility)
to endorse
```
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un déguisement
a disguise
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bardé (adj)
ça barde chez les voisins! (colloquial)
bedecked
sparks are flying next door!
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une fermeture
a fastener, closing device
| a zipper
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trancher
to slice, cut, cut through
to settle, resolve, decide
to contrast (trancher sur/avec = stand out against)
break off (tranchons-là! = leave it at that!)
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un gramme
a gram
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mitrailleuse
machine gun
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entretuer (entre-tuer)
to kill each other
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aucunement
il n'a aucunement l'intention de l'épouser
in no way
He hasn't the slightest intention of marrying her.
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apaiser
to apease, smooth, calm
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l'embêtement (informal)
embêter
problem
to bother, pester
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une chemise
a shirt
| a folder
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accuser
to accuse, blame
| to acknowledge
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la demeure
dwelling, abode, home
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stipuler
to stipulate, delineate
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la gamme
scale (music)
| range, spectrum
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le rayon
aisle of a store
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un avoir
an asset, a credit
| a credit note
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rembourser
to reimburse
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un désagrément
a problem (Note: ≠ disagreement)
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réintéger
to reinstate
| to return to
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assorti (adj)
assorti à
assorti de
matching
matched to
matched with
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un cachet
```
a tablet (par exemple, d'aspirin)
a seal, stamp (par exemple, un cachet de la poste = postmark)
a fee
```
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le statut
status
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les bajoues (f)
jowls
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l'attente (f)
wait, waiting
| expectation
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échoué (adj)
fallen, run aground, collapsed
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extraire
| s'extraire de
to extract
| to climb out of
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l'intendance (f)
administration, supply
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bouffi (adj)
puffy
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soumettre
to submit
| to subjugate, tame
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l'aléas (?)
riskiness
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la curée
scramble
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curer
to clean out, scrape clean
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légitime (adj)
legitimate
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mouillé
damp
| anchored
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un sinistre
conflagration
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un rescapé
a survivor
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le saccage
pillage
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outrancier (adj)
excessive
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se tracasser
to worry
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enceinte (adj)
pregnant
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être aux anges (idiom)
to be in seventh heaven
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un voyant
a (warning) light or indicator
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dompter
to tame, to crush, to overcome
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le rehaussement
raising, elevating
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le visionnement
viewing
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la veilleuse
night light
sidelight
pilot light
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dénicher
hunt down, flush out
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timidement
timidly
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paulien (adj)
referring to Paul the Apostle
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éveiller
to awaken, arouse
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l'éveil (m)
awakening, arousal
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pantois (adj)
amazed, astonished
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un tantinet (colloquial)
a mite, a little bit
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la poursuite
pursuit
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occaisionnellement
occasionally
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riposter
to answer back
| to counterattack
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saugrenu (adj)
wacky, grotesque, deformed
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survenir
to happen, take place
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l'engin (m)
machine, device, vehicle, contraption
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saillir
to protrude, stand out
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les pommettes (f)
cheekbones
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bridé (adj)
slit
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charnu (adj)
fleshy
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l'essentiel (m)
core
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un savant (m,f)
scholar, scientist
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une ramification
ramification
| branch, offshoot
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réclamer
to ask for
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un heurt
faire quelque chose sans heurt
bump, clash
to do something smoothly
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insolite (adj)
l'insolite (m)
un goût de l'insolite
strange, odd, unusual
the unusual
a taste for the unusual
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guérir
guéri (adj)
to heal
healed, recovered
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bousiller (informal)
to wreck
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un bouc
un bouc émissaire
sentir le bouc (idiom)
a goat
a goatee, beard
a scapegoat
to stink
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le bistouri
scalpel
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se planter (colloquial)
Il se plante concernant les evenements.
to get it wrong
He's wrong about the events.
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ler bourdonnement
hum, buzz
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accaparer
to monopolize
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tasser
Les passagers étaient tassés dans le train.
to pack, cram, squeeze
The passengers were crammed into the train.
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se tasser
Les choses se sont tassées (colloquial usage)
to make oneself appear smaller
Things settled down.
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l'indice (m)
index, sign
| clue
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frayer
frayer un chemin (ou la voie) à quelque chose
to open up, clear
to pave the way for something
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se frayer
se frayer un chemin dans un endroit
to make one's way
to make one's way in a place
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une civière
a stretcher
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restaurer
se restaurer
to restore
to feed
to have something to eat
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effarer
to alarm
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refiler (informal)
to palm off
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aigu (adj)
| aiguë
acute, piercing
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une lézarde (colloquial)
a crack
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répertoirié (adj)
recorded
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craqueler
to crack, split, fracture
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craquelure
crazing (of bone or ceramics)
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rentabliser
to make profitable
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un rien (colloquial)
a bit
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un gloussement
a chuckle
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maugreer
to grumble
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tonitruant (adj)
booming
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percutant (adj)
hard-hitting, forceful
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une mouette
gull
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une moue
a pout
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l'envergure (f)
span, stretch
| wingspan
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un trait
a trait
| a line
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le tour
tower
tour
circumference
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bleuté (adj)
blue-blooded, aristocratic
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tramer
to weave, hatch
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la trame
weft, woof (fabric)
framework (of a story)
raster (tv)
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troublant (adj)
unsettling
| thrilling
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aguerrir
aguerri (adj)
to harden
hardened
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désamorcer
defuse, deactivate
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rayer
to cross out
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piétiner
to stamp on the ground
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costaud (adj)
strong, sturdy
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tâter
to feel out
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tuméfier
to swell up, tumify
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tuméfié (adj)
swollen
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luisant (adj)
shining, slick
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la jouissance
pleasure
| orgasm
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esquisser
s'esquisser
to sketch, outline, trace
to emerge
