Volume 5 Flashcards

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bisser

A

to repeat

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un cloaque

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cesspool

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acharné (adj)

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fierce

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embobiner

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to hoodwink

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un adultérin

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an illigitimate

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un mercredi sur deux

Le clinique est ouvert un mercredi sur deux.

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every second wednesday

The clinic is open every second wednesday.

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cornaquer

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to show sb around

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attardé (adj)

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retarded (mentally)

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la gêne

Elle énonçait cela sans la moindre gêne.

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discomfort
bother

She said that without the slightest discomfort.

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mesquin (adj)

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miserly
picayune
small minded

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un ormeau

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an elm tree

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un col

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collar
pass (mountain)
neckband

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une fourrure

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fur

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saccager

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to wreck
ransack
pillage

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déaxé (adj)

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off centre

unbalanced

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velu (adj)

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furry

hairy

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soyeux (adj)

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silky

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démanger

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to itch

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19
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la verge

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penis

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le purit

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puritus

itching

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foudroyant (adj)

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terrible
awful
sudden

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foudroyer

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to blast

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23
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un érythème

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erythema

reddening of skin with inflammation

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une cicatrisation

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healing

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saucissonner
to slice | picnic
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pointiller
to stipple
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pointillé
dotted
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esquiver
dodge | sidestep
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un élancement
shooting pain | throbbing pain
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bancal (adj)
rickety
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une anfractuosité Elle pouvait voir dans ma bouche, en découvrir toutes les imperfections, avoir accès jusqu’aus anfractuosités de mes amygdales.
crevice She could see in my mouth, while discovering all its imperfections, having access as far as the crevices of my tonsils.
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une amygdale
a tonsil
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pépier
to chirp | twitter
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déroger
to depart from | to break from
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une argutie
quibble | deception
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un bréviaire
bible (figurative)
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parachever
to complete finalize perfect
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tripoter
play about | meddle
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une manette
lever joystick controls
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une contrepartie
counterpart
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contrôler
to control | to check, verify
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par ailleurs
in addition
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vertement
sharply
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sommer sommer qqn de faire qqc
to order to sum to order sb to do st
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une luciole
firefly
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un terrien propriétaire terrien
countryman earthling land owner
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debt | something owed
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une faille
a break related to verb faillir = to fail to keep a promise/cimmitment
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l’égarement
distraction related to verb égarer = to lead astray, mislay
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velu (adj)
furry, hairy
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une haltérophile
weghtlifting
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bourré
drunk | full of
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véreux (adj)
crooked
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louche (adj)
shady disreputable cmf une lâche = coward
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un étrier boire le coup de l’étrier (idiom) mettre à qqn le pied à l’étrier (idiom)
stirrup have a drink for the road to get started
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un sas
airlock (ship) | blockage due to air bubble
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grelottter on grelotte ici!
to shiver
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un remous
stir
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l’affluent (m)
tributary affluer = flow, roll in
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bâcher
to cover st with tarpaulins
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une simagrée
play-acting airs fuss
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un têtard
tadpole
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fulgurant (adj) La fulgurante beauté d’Annna Villandreux m’a captivé totalement.
dazzling spectacular meteoric Anna Villandreux’s dazzling beauty totally captivated me.
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la veinure
veining
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un placage
veneer plating tackling (sports)
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fourvoyer se fourvoyer
go astray to make a mistake
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filandreux (adj)
stringy | rambling
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emprunté (adj)
self-conscious | stilted
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une échalas maigre comme un échalas (idiom)
cane skinny as a rake
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braguette
fly of pants | zipper
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discutable (adj)
debatable | arguable
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nanti (adj)
wealthy
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le nanti
moneyed class
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involuté (adj)
involved | complex
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désinvolte
casual
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combler
to satisfy
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prélever
to sample | withdraw
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un chaînon
link
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l’acharnement (m)
fierceness | stubbornness
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le rabotage
planing | smoothing
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un raboteur
planer
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raboteux (adj)
rugged | bumpy
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une rouerie
cunning
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un fonceur
dynamic (adj) | go-getter (colloquial)
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prendre à bras-le-corps
take the bull by the horns
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apaisant (adj)
appeasing | soothing
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une toile de fond
back drop
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la moiteur
sweatiness
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un étourdissement
blackout
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l’ouïe (f)
``` hearing sound hole (instrument) ```
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une godemiché
dildo
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un entrave
obstactle recall: entraver = hinder
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un méridional (adj & noun)
southern, esp southern France
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saillant (adj)
prominent recall: saillir = protrude, stand out
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une étrave
stem
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un violier
sailing vessel
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obnubiler
to obsess | worry
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une encablure à quelques encablure de là
a cable’s length a few yards away
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un détroit détroit de Gibralter
strait sound strait of Gibralter
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un plasticage de
a bomb attack on
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habilement
skilfully
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un bienfaiture
benefactor
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rocambolesque (adj)
fantastic strange incredible
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la jérémiade Cesse tes jérémiades!
lamentation Stop moaning!
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une touche-à-tout
jack of all trades
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malin (adl)
astute | crafty