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Volume 10 Flashcards

1
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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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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

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long term

lengthy trips

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une balustrade

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railing

handrail

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l’appui (m)

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support
encouragement
backing

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ôter

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to remove

allieve

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siéger

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to sit
be located
be in session

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l’édredon (m)

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eiderdown

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un sourire tout en dents

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a toothy smile

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32
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au lieu de quoi

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instead of which

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33
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une sylphyde

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sylph

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34
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rebondir

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rebound

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bander

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to bandage
bend

to have a hard on (vulgar slang)

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bandant (adj)

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bandaged

to have a hard on (vulgar slang)

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champêtre (adj)

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rural

pastoral

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38
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le moment venu

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when the time came

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39
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un aveu

A

confession

avowal

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40
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la plastique

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plastic
plastic art
physique

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41
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plastique (adj)

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flexible

plastic

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42
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plastiquer

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to blow up

43
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l’acception (f)

dans toute l’acception du terme/mot

A

acceptance
meaning

in every sense of the word

44
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dépecer

A

to tear something apart
to cut up
carve (meat)

45
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dégorger

A

dig up

46
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un timonier

A

helmsman

47
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un loden

A

thick waterproof fabric
loden coat
dark green colour

48
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un bateleur

une bateleuse

A

jugler

tumbler

49
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une presqu’île

A

peninsula

50
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dédommager

A

compensate

satisfy (debt, obligation)

51
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le buste

A

bust

chest

52
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rabaisser

A

to belittle

53
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le reps (m?)

A

a ribbed fabric made from silk, cotton or wool

54
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un pêcheur à la mouche

A

fly fisherman

note: pécheur = sinner
pêcheur = fisherman

55
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un arpent

A

old unit of land area

56
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éhonté (adj)

A

shameless

57
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un poteau

poteau électrique
poteau indicateur

A

a pole

electricity pole
signpost

58
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coiffer qn au poteau

coiffer qn sur le poteau

A

to overtake sb to the finish line (race, election)

59
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un rustaud

A

yokel
slob
villain

60
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indigne (adj)

A

unworthy

undignified

61
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une prébende (f?)

A

stipend paid to a priest or minister

62
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la coutume

une fois n’est pas coutume (idiom)

A

custom
habit
practice

one time won’t hurt

63
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lettré (adj)

A

well-read
educated
scholarly

64
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un/une lettré

A

man/woman of letters

scholar

65
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crotter

A

to muddy

66
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un maillot

un maillot de bain

A

jersey
shirt

bathing suit

67
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un attroupement

A

gathering of people

68
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désemparer

A

to throw sb into confusion

69
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désemparé (adj)

A

crippled
distraught
bewildered

70
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étuver

A

steam

sterilize

71
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une étuve

A

steam room

incubator (microbiology)

72
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complaire

A

to please
cause pleasure
satisfy a desire

73
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se complaire

se complaire à faire
se complaire dans le malheur
se complaire dans son ignorance

A

to take pleasure in doing
to wallow in misery
to bask in one’s own ignorance

74
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un cliquet

A

click

pawl

75
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un cliquetis

A

clinking
jingle
clatter

76
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une momie

A

mummy

77
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épauler

A

to support
buttress
help

78
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s’affranchir de

A

to free oneself from

79
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un propos

propos de table

A

talk
intention

table talk

80
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le vague

il regardait dans le vague

elle avait les yeux perdus dans le vague de nuit

A

vagueness

he had a faraway look

she stared into the emptiness of the night

cmf: la vague = wave

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autiste (adj)

A

autistic = noninteractive

82
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une régie

A

state owned enterprise

83
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régie (adj)

A

administered

governed

84
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vitupérer

A

condemn

rebuke harshly

85
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un fléau

A

curse
scourge
flail (agrculture)

86
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une buse

triple buse!! (expression)

A

buzzard
flume
pipe
duct

clot (colloquial)

you idiot!!

87
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la méconnaissance

A

ignorance

misreading

88
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lugubre (adj)

A

lugubrious

gloomy

89
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la fiente

A

droppings (biology)

scat

90
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le détournement

A

misappropriation

91
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enchevêtrer

A

to tangle

cause to become tangled

92
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le curseur

A

cursor

slider (contol)

93
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un capteur

capteur infrarouges
capteur solaire

A

sensor

IR sensor
solar cell

94
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l’emprise (f)

A

grip
hold
influence

95
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une foulée

courir dans la foulé de qn

A

stride

to tail sb

96
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survoler

A

to over fly (by plane)

to skim a document

97
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lapidaire (adj)

A

pithy

profound

98
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alourdir

s’alourdir

A

to burden
weigh down

to grow heavy

99
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une anfractuosité

A

crevice

windiness

100
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subtiliser

subtiliser qc à qn

A

to steal

to steal st from sb

101
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bosseler

A

to dent

emboss

102
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bosselé

A

bulging
bumpy
battered

103
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rabrouer

A

snub

rebuff

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