Volume 10 Flashcards

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sillonner

A

to criss-cross

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à l’abri de

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sheltered from

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déshonorant (adj)

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dishonourable

disgraceful

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déshonorer

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to disgrace

dishonour

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cantonner

se cantonner

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to station

to station/position oneself

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la marge

se sentir en marge

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margin
scope

to feel like an outsider

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embobiner

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bamboozle
to wind (sewing)
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hâbleur (adj)

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boastful

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hanter

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haunt

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frôler

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to brush (past, against)

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insigne (adj)

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distinguished

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fourrer

se fourrer dans

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to stick
fill

to get stuck in

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inamical (adj)

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unfriendly

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tenailler

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to torment

torture

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infléchir

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inflect
bend
influence

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débander

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disband
break up
disperse

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la prestance

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presence

bearing

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la mansuétude

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indulgence

laxness

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affubler

s’affubler de

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to label

to take on a name of…

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atténuant (adj)

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diminishing

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21
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circonstances atténuantes

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extenuating circumstances

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un bief

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millrace

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un inadapté

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misfit

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un repère

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landmark

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au long cours les voyages au long cours
long term lengthy trips
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une balustrade
railing | handrail
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l’appui (m)
support encouragement backing
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ôter
to remove | allieve
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siéger
to sit be located be in session
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l’édredon (m)
eiderdown
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un sourire tout en dents
a toothy smile
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au lieu de quoi
instead of which
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une sylphyde
sylph
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rebondir
rebound
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bander
to bandage bend to have a hard on (vulgar slang)
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bandant (adj)
bandaged to have a hard on (vulgar slang)
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champêtre (adj)
rural | pastoral
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le moment venu
when the time came
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un aveu
confession | avowal
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la plastique
plastic plastic art physique
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plastique (adj)
flexible | plastic
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plastiquer
to blow up
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l’acception (f) dans toute l’acception du terme/mot
acceptance meaning in every sense of the word
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dépecer
to tear something apart to cut up carve (meat)
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dégorger
dig up
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un timonier
helmsman
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un loden
thick waterproof fabric loden coat dark green colour
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un bateleur | une bateleuse
jugler | tumbler
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une presqu’île
peninsula
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dédommager
compensate | satisfy (debt, obligation)
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le buste
bust | chest
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rabaisser
to belittle
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le reps (m?)
a ribbed fabric made from silk, cotton or wool
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un pêcheur à la mouche
fly fisherman note: pécheur = sinner pêcheur = fisherman
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un arpent
old unit of land area
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éhonté (adj)
shameless
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un poteau poteau électrique poteau indicateur
a pole electricity pole signpost
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coiffer qn au poteau | coiffer qn sur le poteau
to overtake sb to the finish line (race, election)
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un rustaud
yokel slob villain
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indigne (adj)
unworthy | undignified
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une prébende (f?)
stipend paid to a priest or minister
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la coutume une fois n’est pas coutume (idiom)
custom habit practice one time won’t hurt
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lettré (adj)
well-read educated scholarly
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un/une lettré
man/woman of letters | scholar
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crotter
to muddy
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un maillot un maillot de bain
jersey shirt bathing suit
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un attroupement
gathering of people
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désemparer
to throw sb into confusion
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désemparé (adj)
crippled distraught bewildered
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étuver
steam | sterilize
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une étuve
steam room | incubator (microbiology)
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complaire
to please cause pleasure satisfy a desire
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se complaire se complaire à faire se complaire dans le malheur se complaire dans son ignorance
to take pleasure in doing to wallow in misery to bask in one’s own ignorance
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un cliquet
click | pawl
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un cliquetis
clinking jingle clatter
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une momie
mummy
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épauler
to support buttress help
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s'affranchir de
to free oneself from
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un propos propos de table
talk intention table talk
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le vague il regardait dans le vague elle avait les yeux perdus dans le vague de nuit
vagueness he had a faraway look she stared into the emptiness of the night cmf: la vague = wave
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autiste (adj)
autistic = noninteractive
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une régie
state owned enterprise
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régie (adj)
administered | governed
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vitupérer
condemn | rebuke harshly
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un fléau
curse scourge flail (agrculture)
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une buse triple buse!! (expression)
buzzard flume pipe duct clot (colloquial) you idiot!!
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la méconnaissance
ignorance | misreading
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lugubre (adj)
lugubrious | gloomy
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la fiente
droppings (biology) | scat
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le détournement
misappropriation
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enchevêtrer
to tangle | cause to become tangled
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le curseur
cursor | slider (contol)
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un capteur capteur infrarouges capteur solaire
sensor IR sensor solar cell
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l’emprise (f)
grip hold influence
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une foulée courir dans la foulé de qn
stride to tail sb
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survoler
to over fly (by plane) | to skim a document
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lapidaire (adj)
pithy | profound
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alourdir s'alourdir
to burden weigh down to grow heavy
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une anfractuosité
crevice | windiness
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subtiliser subtiliser qc à qn
to steal to steal st from sb
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bosseler
to dent | emboss
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bosselé
bulging bumpy battered
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rabrouer
snub | rebuff