Advanced Composition Vocab_Engl to Fren4 Flashcards by Bob Penner

Q

to bend

A

se courber

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a procession

A

un defilé, une procession

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to faint

A

s’évanouir

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devoutly

A

dévotement

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a nun

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une religieuse, une nonne

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to feel faint, to have a blackout

A

avoir une défaillance

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to comb one’s hair

A

se peigner les cheveux

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to tuck someone in

A

border quelqu’un dans son lit

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idleness

A

le désoeuvrement, la oisiveté

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idle

A

désoeuvré(e)

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lace

A

la dentelle

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to feel drained, sapped

A

être miné(e)

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to set the table

A

dresser le couvert

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to spare money

A

épargner la dépense

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pride

A

l’orgueil (m), la fierté

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to take something from someone

A

tirer quelque chose de quelqu’un

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work

A

la besogne

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discomfort, embarrassment

A

une gêne, un embarras

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to embarrass

A

embarrasser

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to grow lovelier, more beautiful, to embellish (something)

A

embellir

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to become ugly

A

enlaidir

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a liner, a streamship

A

un paquebot

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a building site, a depot, a yard

A

un chantier

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to accost someone

A

accoster quelqu’un

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to hurry

se hâter

to bump into someone (physically)

se heurter contre quelqu'un

to catch sight of

apercevoir

to jostle, to shove someone

bousculer quelqu'un

(nautical) lock

une écluse

a visiting room

un parloir

a kid

un gamin

a thunder storm

un orage

thunder

la foudre

a storm

une têmpete

a prig, a pedant

un(e) cuistre

pedantry

la cuisterie

stupefaction, amazement

l'ahurissement (m)

an indentation, a jagged edge,

une découpure

to cut, to carve

découper

ingenuousness, naivety

la candeur

to open a letter

décacheter une lettre

the mattress

le matelas

a toughening, a hardening

un endurcissement

to toughen

(s')endurcir

to weaken

s'affaiblir

to blink

cligner les yeux

a wink

un clin d'oeil

to be drunk

être gris(e), être saoul(e), être bourré

not very much, the width of two fingers

deux doigts (d'alcool)

stagecoach

une diligence

a steep alleyway

une ruelle escarpée

to half-open

s'entrebâiller

to have the hiccups

avoir le hoquet

holy water

l'eau bénite

a wake

une veille

to turn yellow

jaunir

to turn blue

bleuir

to pinch

pincer

a shroud

un linceul

a lock of hair

une mèche de cheveux

a graveyard

une cimetière

to go up a slope

monter une côte

relief

un soulagement

to paint, to smear

badigeonner

a cupboard

un placard

a doll

une poupée

a hoop

un cerceau

a fold

un pli

to chirp, to warble

gazouiller

to happen to, to befall

advenir