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Vocabulary 8 Flashcards

1
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le sigle

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abbreviation

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mesquin (adj)

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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)

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incitant, provacative

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piquer au vif (idiom)

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to cut to the quick, to be stung by events

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capter

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to capture

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l’écurie

sentir l’écurie (idiom)

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stable, animal pen

to know one is nearly there

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faussement (adv)

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wrongly, falsely

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le nouveau venu

la nouvelle venue

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newcomer

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étouffer

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to smother, hold back

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sidéré

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flabbergasted

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la hantise

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haunt

dread

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le ménagement

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consideration, respectfulness

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les agissements (mp)

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activities, goings-on

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imprenable

avec vue imprenable

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impregnable, unassailable

with an unobstructable vue

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caler

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to wedge, cushion, support

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une esquisse

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a sketch

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la tôle

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sheet metal

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trippeux (Québecois)

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one who trips (has fun)

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la voirie

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garbage dump, garbage collection

road, rail and waterway network

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l’équipement

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equipment, gear

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arracher

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tear out

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l’ébène (f)

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ebony

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un noyer (n)

noyer (vt)

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a walnut

to drown (someone/something)

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aléatoire (adj)

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random, unpredicatable

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endosser

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to assume (a responsibility)
to endorse
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un déguisement

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a disguise

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bardé (adj)

ça barde chez les voisins! (colloquial)

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bedecked

sparks are flying next door!

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une fermeture

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a fastener, closing device

a zipper

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trancher

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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

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a gram

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mitrailleuse

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machine gun

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entretuer (entre-tuer)

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to kill each other

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aucunement

il n’a aucunement l’intention de l’épouser

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in no way

He hasn’t the slightest intention of marrying her.

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apaiser

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to apease, smooth, calm

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l’embêtement (informal)

embêter

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problem

to bother, pester

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une chemise

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a shirt

a folder

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accuser

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to accuse, blame

to acknowledge

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la demeure

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dwelling, abode, home

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stipuler

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to stipulate, delineate

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la gamme

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scale (music)

range, spectrum

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le rayon

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aisle of a store

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un avoir

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an asset, a credit

a credit note

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rembourser

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to reimburse

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un désagrément

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a problem (Note: ≠ disagreement)

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réintéger

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to reinstate

to return to

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assorti (adj)

assorti à
assorti de

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matching

matched to
matched with

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un cachet

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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

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status

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les bajoues (f)

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jowls

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l’attente (f)

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wait, waiting

expectation

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échoué (adj)

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fallen, run aground, collapsed

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extraire

s’extraire de

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to extract

to climb out of

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l’intendance (f)

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administration, supply

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bouffi (adj)

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puffy

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soumettre

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to submit

to subjugate, tame

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l’aléas (?)

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riskiness

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la curée

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scramble

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curer

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to clean out, scrape clean

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légitime (adj)

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legitimate

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mouillé

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damp

anchored

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un sinistre

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conflagration

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un rescapé

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a survivor

85
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le saccage

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pillage

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outrancier (adj)

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excessive

87
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se tracasser

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to worry

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enceinte (adj)

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pregnant

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être aux anges (idiom)

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to be in seventh heaven

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un voyant

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a (warning) light or indicator

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dompter

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to tame, to crush, to overcome

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le rehaussement

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raising, elevating

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le visionnement

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viewing

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la veilleuse

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night light
sidelight
pilot light

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dénicher

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hunt down, flush out

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timidement

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timidly

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paulien (adj)

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referring to Paul the Apostle

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éveiller

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to awaken, arouse

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l’éveil (m)

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awakening, arousal

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pantois (adj)

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amazed, astonished

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un tantinet (colloquial)

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a mite, a little bit

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la poursuite

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pursuit

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occaisionnellement

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occasionally

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riposter

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to answer back

to counterattack

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saugrenu (adj)

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wacky, grotesque, deformed

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survenir

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to happen, take place

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l’engin (m)

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machine, device, vehicle, contraption

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saillir

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to protrude, stand out

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les pommettes (f)

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cheekbones

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bridé (adj)

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slit

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charnu (adj)

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fleshy

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l’essentiel (m)

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core

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un savant (m,f)

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scholar, scientist

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une ramification

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ramification

branch, offshoot

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réclamer

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to ask for

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un heurt

faire quelque chose sans heurt

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bump, clash

to do something smoothly

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insolite (adj)

l’insolite (m)
un goût de l’insolite

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strange, odd, unusual

the unusual
a taste for the unusual

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guérir

guéri (adj)

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to heal

healed, recovered

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bousiller (informal)

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to wreck

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un bouc

un bouc émissaire

sentir le bouc (idiom)

A

a goat
a goatee, beard

a scapegoat

to stink

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le bistouri

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scalpel

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se planter (colloquial)

Il se plante concernant les evenements.

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to get it wrong

He’s wrong about the events.

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ler bourdonnement

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hum, buzz

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accaparer

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to monopolize

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tasser

Les passagers étaient tassés dans le train.

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to pack, cram, squeeze

The passengers were crammed into the train.

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se tasser

Les choses se sont tassées (colloquial usage)

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to make oneself appear smaller

Things settled down.

127
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l’indice (m)

A

index, sign

clue

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frayer

frayer un chemin (ou la voie) à quelque chose

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to open up, clear

to pave the way for something

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se frayer

se frayer un chemin dans un endroit

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to make one’s way

to make one’s way in a place

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une civière

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a stretcher

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restaurer

se restaurer

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to restore
to feed

to have something to eat

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effarer

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to alarm

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refiler (informal)

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to palm off

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aigu (adj)

aiguë

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acute, piercing

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une lézarde (colloquial)

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a crack

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répertoirié (adj)

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recorded

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craqueler

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to crack, split, fracture

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craquelure

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crazing (of bone or ceramics)

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rentabliser

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to make profitable

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un rien (colloquial)

A

a bit

141
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un gloussement

A

a chuckle

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maugreer

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to grumble

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tonitruant (adj)

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booming

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percutant (adj)

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hard-hitting, forceful

145
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une mouette

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gull

146
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une moue

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a pout

147
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l’envergure (f)

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span, stretch

wingspan

148
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un trait

A

a trait

a line

149
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le tour

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tower
tour
circumference

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bleuté (adj)

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blue-blooded, aristocratic

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tramer

A

to weave, hatch

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la trame

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weft, woof (fabric)
framework (of a story)
raster (tv)

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troublant (adj)

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unsettling

thrilling

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aguerrir

aguerri (adj)

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to harden

hardened

155
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désamorcer

A

defuse, deactivate

156
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rayer

A

to cross out

157
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piétiner

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to stamp on the ground

158
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costaud (adj)

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strong, sturdy

159
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tâter

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to feel out

160
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tuméfier

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to swell up, tumify

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tuméfié (adj)

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swollen

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luisant (adj)

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shining, slick

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la jouissance

A

pleasure

orgasm

164
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esquisser

s’esquisser

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to sketch, outline, trace

to emerge

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