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Volume 6 Flashcards

1
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amorcer

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to bait, prime, initiate

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encruster

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to encrust, inlay

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rétrécisser

un rétrécissement (n)

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to narrow

a narrowing

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enjoué (adj)

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playful

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pantois (adj)

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flabbergasted

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sidéré (adj)

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flabbergasted, dumbstruck

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un bredouillement

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a mumble, splutter

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morne (adj)

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drab, doleful, gloomy

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l’éblouissement (m)

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dazzle, splendor

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le dénégation

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denial

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ébranler

A

to rattle, shake up

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les honoraires (mp)

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fee

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exaucer

exaucé (adj)

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to bestow, grant, fulfill

fulfilled

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engueuler

s’engueuler

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to berate loudly

to have a row

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une menotte

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a manacle

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à brûle-pourpoint

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point-blank

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17
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une accoutumance

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a habit, custom, addiction

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débloquer

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to unblock

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une ride

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a wrinkle, furrow (on the face)

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la grosseur

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thickness, size

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classer

classé (adj)

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to file, classify

indexed

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chicoter

un chicot

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to stump

a stump

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bousiller

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to ruin

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déborder

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to boil over, overfill

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dilapider

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to squander

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un actif

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an asset

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27
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la succession

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succession, inheritance

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combiner

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to combine

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le combiné

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handset, receiver

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30
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la combiné (slang)

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monkey business

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31
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franchir

A

go through, overcome

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32
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la paperasse

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papers, forms

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33
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un filtre

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a filter

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34
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la police

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policy (insurance)

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35
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bedonnant (adj)

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potbellied

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36
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hypothéquer

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to mortgage

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repairer

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to go to ground, go under cover

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un repaire

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a den, lair, hideout

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élimé (adj)

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shabby, threadbare

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l’aléas

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riskiness

41
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inattendu (adj)

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unexpected

42
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inachevé (adj)

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incomplete

43
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une courbure

A

curvature

44
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louche (adj)

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shady, disreputable

45
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râler

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grumble, moan

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acquis (adj)

A

acquired

47
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guère

A

barely, hardly

48
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embellir

A

to embellish, beautify

49
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une atteinte
l’atteinte

from atteindre

A 
an attack
the reach (of something)

to attain, reach

50
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châtain (adj masc.)

Il est châtain

A

brown, chestnut (for hair)

He has brown hair.

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une raie

A

a parting, a streak (as in one’s hair)

52
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un complet

A

a suit

53
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sobre

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sober

54
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un quart de travail

A

shift

55
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un bail
les baux

C’est un bail qu’on ne s’est pas vu!

A

a lease
leases

It’s been ages since we’ve seen each other!

56
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le préposé

A

employee, official, postman, attendant, appointee

57
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théoriquement

A

theoretically

58
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l’empressement (m)

A

willingness

59
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clore

A

to close, complete

60
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turlupiner (colloq)

A

to bother, to bug (as in irritate)

61
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acharner

s’acharner

A

to hound, pursue, track down

to persevere

62
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cadrer

A

to center

to tally, jibe

63
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dévier

A

to deviate, veer, deflect

64
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asséner

A

to thump, to deal (as a blow)

65
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un agacement

A

an irritation

66
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sidérer

A

to astonish, to stagger (vt)

67
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un aveu

les aveux

A

confession

confessions

68
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indispensable (adj)

A

essential

69
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sécréter

A

to secrete

70
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tracasser

A

to worry, bother

71
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exposer

A

to put on display, to make known

72
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supputer

A

to calculate

73
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divaguer

A

to ramble, to rave

74
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le chantage

A

blackmail

75
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batifoler

A

to flirt

76
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emboîter

A

to fit together

77
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un mastodonte

A

mastodon

slang: very big or important person

78
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endimancher

endimanché

A

to put on one’s Sunday best

dressed in one’s Sunday best

79
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rugeux (adj)

A

rough, raspy, rugged

80
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une échéance

A

due date, expiry date

81
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citer

A

to quote

82
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une dépouille

dépouiller

dépouillé (adj)

A

remains, relic

to skin, strip, deprive

bare, denuded

83
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fatalement

A

inevitably

84
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vengeur (adj)

A

vengeful

85
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vengeur (m and f)

A

avenger

86
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parfaire

A

to perfect

87
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propice (adj)

A

favourable

88
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octroyer à quelqu’un

A

to grant to someone

to bestow on someone

89
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la revanche

A

retaliation, revenge

90
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égarer

A

to mislead

91
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les dépens (m, p)

A

expense

92
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une fougonnette

A

a delivery van

93
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opacifier

A

to make obscure, opaque

94
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la manchette

faire les manchettes

A

overcuff (clothing)
headlines (of newspaper)

make the headlines

95
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une greffe

les cliniques de greffe

A 
a graft (biology)
adoption?

adoption agency?

96
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piétiner

A 
to trample on
to stamp (as one's foot)
97
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viser

A

to aim

to intend

98
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rentable (adj)

A

profitable

99
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le tier monde

A

Third World

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