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Volume 6 Flashcards

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broncher

Le journal semblait capable d’absorber sans broncher toutes les secousses, toute les agressions du monde extérieur.

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to stumble, hiccup

The paper seemed able to absorb without hiccup all the shocks, all the assaults of the outside world.

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une bisbille

être en bisbille avec qn

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falling out

to b at loggerheads with sb

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un patachon

mener une vie de patachon

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mover & shaker (colloquial)

to live in the fast lane

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le déchiffrage

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deciphering

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de beaucoup

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by far

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le naturel

être d’un naturel gai
il manque de naturel
faire avec beaucoup de naturel
faire avec le plus grand naturel

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naturalness
ease

to be naturally cheerful
he’s not very natural
to do very naturally
to do in the most natural way

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l’apange (m)

étre l’apanage de qc/qn

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to be the perogative of st/sb

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le misoneism

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hatred of anything new

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invraisemblable (adj)

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improbable

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une tribune

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stand (of stadium)

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déprimant (adj)

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depressing

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dommageable (adj)

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fragile

harmul

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hâtivement

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hastily

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l’ébèbe (f)

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ebony

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un vestiare

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dressing room

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sournois (adj)

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cunning

under-handed

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un entrefilet

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paragraph

brief article

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malveillant (adj)

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malicious

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batailler

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to battle

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le prud’homme

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labour court

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le bien-fondé

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validity

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la malversation

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malpractice

embezzlement

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révolu (adj)

ce temps est revolu
avoir 12 ans révolus
après une année révolue

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past

those days are over
to be over 12 years old
after a year has gone by

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la tournure d’esprit

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frame of mind

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une tournure prendre bonne tournure
turning to take a turn for the better
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un caparaçon
decorative covering for a horse
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la pesanteur
weight | gravity
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rustre (adj)
boorish
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muffle (adj)
loutish | oafish
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un maçon
mason
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emmancher
to fit a handle to recall: manche = sleeve, wand, handle
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pétre de (adj) pétri d’amour propre
full of full of conceit
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truqué (adj)
fake | rigged up
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une comparution
appearance
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l’immodestie (f?)
indecency
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engrener
to mesh (as in gears)
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godiller
skull | row (a boat)
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tapageur (adj)
rowdy showy garish
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la liesse en liesse
jubilation jubilant
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écrouler | s’écrouler
to fade | crumble
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une mésalliance
mismatch
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sans vergogne
shamelessly | without scruples
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un socle
base | basis
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un fardeau
load | burden
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il avait suffi de deux mots pour...
It only needed two words to...
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dégringoler
to tumble down | to fall off sharply
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entêtant
heady
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les vis platinées
breaker points (car)
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une verrue
wart
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la disparition
disappearance | death
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la rognure
clipping
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un butor
boor | lout
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supputer supputer ses chances de réussite
to calculate to weigh up one’s chances of success.
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la bretelle
shoulder strap
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affaisser | s’affaisser
subside decline sag
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érafler
to scratch scrape abrade graze
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un pèlerin
pilgrim
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suinter
to ooze away seep trickle
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un gouffre
chasm
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basculer
topple overbalance tumble
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patent (adj)
obvious
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contreficher contreficher de contreficher que
to not give a damn to not care about to not care if
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le clapot Regarde la mer, Il ya beaucoup de clapot aujord’hui.
chop Look at the sea, it’s very choppy today.
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un stylographe
pen
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vagir
to wail | cry
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un vagissement
wail
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le désarroi
disarray | distress
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en vrac
higgledy piggledy
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épanoui (adj)
in full bloom | well-adjusted
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antinomique (adj)
paradoxical
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une soutane
garb worn by a catholic priest
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la prévention
prevention | avoidance
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une anicroche
hitch | wrinkle
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épater
to impress
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vermeil (adj and noun (m))
ruby red
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iriser
make irridescent
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fédérateur (adj)
unifying
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dépeigner qn
to make sb hair untidy
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un faussaire
forger | countereiter
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un meneur | une meneuse
leader agitator ringleader
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bienveillant (adj)
benevolent
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griser se griser de
to intoxicate inebriate to get drunk on
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trier trier sur le volet (idiom)
to sort select to handpick
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un secondaire
feeder | cog
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la lune de miel
honeymoon
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incoercible (adj)
uncontrolable
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une alvéole
cavity | socket
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alvéolé (adj)
honeycombed
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un trou à soi
niche lit: a hole for oneself also: faire son trou = make a niche for oneself
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les PME (fp)
small and medium enterprises
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l’émolument (m)
profit
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adonner
to addict, cause to become dependent
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s’adonner
to give oneself to | to devote oneself to
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prévenant (adj)
considerate | respectful
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l’heur (m)
happiness
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dévaliser
to rob to clean out (eg. an appt) (colloquial)
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abattre
to slaughter | destroy
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à bout portant (idiom)
at point blank range
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URSSAF
Union pour le recouvrement de la sécurité sociale et des allocations familiale in France, body that administers social security programs and payment.
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regorger de
to be packed with
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une lumière inactiniique
a safe light (for photography)
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un faux jour figurative: présenter qc dans un faux jour ou sous un faux jour
time of day when things don’t appear as they are due to failing light to be deceptive, attempt to hide the trye nature of st
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le prestidigitation
sleight of hand | magic
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la voilure
``` sails wing surface (airplane) ```
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fagoté (adj)
dressed | oddly dressed
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hétéroclite (adj)
heterogeneous miscellaneous motley
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éructer
to spit out
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la laque
hair spray | lacquer

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