Deck 1 Flashcards

(105 cards)

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le postillon (“posteon”)

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spit
drop of saliva

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débattre

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to discuss
negotiate

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se débattre

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to struggle

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4
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persifler

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to mock

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5
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une lacune

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gap
hole (empty space)

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un rustre (adj, nom m and f)

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uncouth
boor

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7
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pallier (vt)

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to compensate for

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8
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la fainéantise

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laziness

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9
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gauchir
se gauchir

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to warp
bend

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10
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une remise

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storage shed

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11
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un butoir

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buffer
stop

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12
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une santiag

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cowboy boot

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13
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une mélopée

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chant

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14
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un lustre

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chandelier

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15
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s’aviser que

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to realize that

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16
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s’aviser de faire

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to dare (to do something)

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17
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avoir pour consigne de

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to have orders to

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18
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avenant (adj)

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pleasant
likeable

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19
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rappliquer

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to turn up (appear)
come back

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20
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apporter à manger et à boire

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to bring something to eat and drink

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21
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les constantes

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constants
vital signs

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22
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le chiendent

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couch grass

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23
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le chevreuil

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venison

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24
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un ange passa

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there was a lull in the conversation

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emmailloter
to swaddle
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peine perdue
lost cause futile waste of time
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empêtrer
to get bogged down
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le fond de l’air est frais
there’s a nip in the air
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une gamelle
tin dish
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jucher
to perch
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des mondanités (fp)
social events small things of daily life
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le tournis
vertigo
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ombrageux
tetchy skittish (horse) distrustful
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un passage à niveau
level crossing
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la mansuétude
indulgence
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radié du barreau
to be disbarred
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avachir
to wear out deplete of dynamism deprive
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un tout-venant
all and sundry
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vitupérer
to strongly afix blame go on the attack
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mettre quelqu’un en charpie
to tear sb to shreds en charpie = in shreds
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ne connaître que trop qqc
to know something only too well
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fluet (adj)
frail slight
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chétif (adj)
scrawny
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un sommier
bed frame part that supports the mattress
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au beau fixe
looking good rosy
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la foutaise
nonsense syn: la baliverne, la bêtise
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prévenir
to tell call warn
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une goulée une lampée
gulp
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engueuler
to scold
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la louange
praise
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une cata
disaster
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fichu les pétoches
to scare to death
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fichu (adj)
ruined shot bloody un fichu: shawl
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une trotte
long walk a stretch
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saborder
to scuttle
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débile (adj)
moronic idiotic
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d’apparat
ceremonial
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érafler
scratch graze
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cuver sa cuite
sleep off a bender
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au vif
lively
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vouer
to nurse a feeling for
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une gâchette
trigger
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maladif (adj)
unhealthy pathological
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timoré (adj)
fearful timorous
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ceindre
to put around one’s waist or head note: ceinture
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tasser
to press down
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se tasser
to shrink die down
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répliquer
to retort replicate
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foncière (adj)
related to land
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la gnôle
hooch
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un alambic
still (for distillation)
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le tord-boyaux
rot gut (alcohol)
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les jeux de société
board games
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un cornouiller
dogwood
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une charogne
rotting carcass bastard
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la pêche
peach fishing
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une rade
natural harbour
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un gratte-papier
pencil pusher
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cadastrer
to register with the land registry
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un greffier
court clerk
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une fournée
batch note: from “what goes into an oven together”
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encourir
to incur
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vaillamment
valiantly
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éploré (adj)
grief-stricken
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envoyer bouler
to send packing
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le capharnaüm (ph = f)
shambles
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un demeuré (adj et nom m et f)
half-wit
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désœuvré (adj)
inactive at loose ends
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sentencieux (adj)
sententious pompous
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l’afflux (m)
massive flow
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un boulet
cannonball
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pétrir
to mix make
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être pétri
to be arrogant
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la lie
lees (eg in vine making) the most vile part
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embringuer (vt)
to drag (into)
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vivoter
to struggle along
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une entente
understanding accord
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un précepteur une préceptrice
private tutor
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la baisse
lowering
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un décompte
discount detailed accounting
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une sono
sound system
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une sépulture
grave burial site
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lie-de-vin (adj invariable)
wine coloured
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finaud (adj, nom m and f)
cunning crafty
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fourbe (adj)
deceitful