Deck 1

Question 1

draft

Answer 1

un vent coulis

[ > un repêchage, une traite, un brouillon, une conscription ]

Question 2

valve

Answer 2

f. soupape (i.e. du poêle - stove, furnace, frying pan)

[ > le piston ]

Question 3

atténuer

Answer 3

to ease, to alleviate, to reduce

[ > apaiser, pallier, bercer, soulager, alléger, adoucir ]

Question 4

muter

Answer 4

to transfer, to mutate

Question 5

to ride

Answer 5

[ + to overlap, to straddle (grätschen, überspannen) ]

chevaucher

Question 6

wall

Answer 6

f. une muraille, m. un mur

> une paroi (à l’extérieur)

Question 7

canopy

Answer 7

m. dais
[ > une voûte, un baldaquin ]
[ > un auvent + porch roof ]

Question 8

cime

Answer 8

f. top, peak
[ > une apogée, un pic, un sommet ]
[ > culminer - to reach its peak ]

Question 9

hoot

Answer 9

(= Schrei, Ruf, Gejaule) f. hulule

[ > une chouette, un hibou ]

Question 10

maze

Answer 10

m. lacis

m. un dédale

Question 11

poisonous

Answer 11

(+ harmful) délétère (adj.)
[ = vénéneux,se ]
[ > nosif, nuisible, néfaste, malfaisant ]

Question 12

to do push-ups

Answer 12

faire des pompes

Question 13

Crazy

Answer 13

(+ insane, mad, wild) fou, folle
(Les herbes [f.] folles)

[ > cinglé, fêlé (nuts, hoarse, cracked), givré, taré, déjanté, dingue, farfelu ]

Question 14

headstand

Answer 14

m. poirier

Question 15

flow

Answer 15

m. débit

[ > le cours ]

Question 16

kettle

Answer 16

f. bouilloire
[ > une marmite - cooking pot ]
[ > une casserole - saucing pan ]
[ > un pôele - stove, furnance, frying pan ]
[ != un bouillon - broth, stock ]

Question 17

brook

Answer 17

(= Bach) m. ruisseau
> une calanque
> ruisseler - to stream, to trickle, to drip

Question 18

louche à verlan (l’envers)

Answer 18

chelou - suspicious, strange, weird
[ > farfelu - crazy, odd, strange ]
[ marrant - funny, odd, strange ]
[ pas net - weird, strange, out of focus ]
[ véreux - shady, dubious, wormy, maggoty ]

Question 19

I jack off twice a day

Answer 19

Je me branle deux fois par jour

[ > se palucher, se masturber ]

Question 20

terne (adj.)

Answer 20

dim, drab, dull, lacklustre, dreary (trostlos)
[ > morne - gloomy, dull, dismal ]
[ > glauque, triste ]
[ > éteint,e - quelconque ]

Question 21

scheming

Answer 21

(Intrigen, Machenschaften, Gaunerei = trickery)
f. magouille
[ > une manigance, une intrigue, une combine ]

Question 22

soumettre

Answer 22

to submit, to test, to subdue (bezwingen, überwältigen, unterdrücken, lindern)
[être soumis à - to be subject to]
[ > assujetti à - to be liable for ]
[ > se soumettre à - adhérer à ]

Question 23

rabattre

Answer 23

to turn down, to pull down, to reduce, to decrease

[ > tirailler, abaisser, tirer, atténuer, amenuiser, réduire, diminuer, dégrader ]
[ > alléger + to lighten, to make lighter, to relieve, to soothe ]

Question 24

hazards

Answer 24

m. pl. aléas (= Gefahr, Risiko, Zufall, Hindernis)

Question 25

to shout at the top of one's voice

Answer 25

crier (chanter, hurler) à tue-tête

Question 26

repérer

Answer 26

to spot, to locate, (+se) to find a way, to find one's way around [ > decéler - to detect, to spot, to reveal, to give away ] [ > dénicher - to unearth, to dig up, to discover, to spot ] [ > un repère ]

Question 27

to bless

Answer 27

bénir | > bénin,bénigne

Question 28

foliage

Answer 28

m. feuillage

Question 29

raidillon

Answer 29

m. steep path

Question 30

gloomy

Answer 30

lugubre, sombre, déprimant, morne [dismal]

Question 31

notch, cut

Answer 31

f. une encoche, une entaille (faire des encoches avec la hachette)

Question 32

(dirty) dishes

Answer 32

la vaisselle | [ > faire la vaisselle, faire la plonge ]

Question 33

Can I cum on your tits?

Answer 33

Peux-je jouir sur tes nichons?

Question 34

to fool / mess around, to talk rubbish

Answer 34

[dekɔne] déconner [ > tripoter ] [ > raconter des bobards ]

Question 35

pénurie

Answer 35

f. [le manque] paucity (Mangel), destitution | [la pauvreté, démuni]

Question 36

stoop

Answer 36

(entrance stairway: Dt. Treppe) - m. perron

Question 37

to receive

Answer 37

( + to hold ) receler recevoir ( + to great, to welcome, to take in )

Question 38

to flush the toilet

Answer 38

tirer la chasse

Question 39

ember

Answer 39

f. braise

Question 40

futaie

Answer 40

f. forest, (un arbre de haute futaie: mature tree) | > la forêt

Question 41

fern

Answer 41

f. fougère

Question 42

Go milk your rod

Answer 42

Va faire pleurer le colosse!

Question 43

respectful

Answer 43

révérencieux,se

Question 44

vulgaire

Answer 44

vulgar, coarse, common, ordinary, mundane | [ > cru, brut, rugueux, banal, une platitude, une banalité, quelconque ]