Jan2023b Flashcards

(99 cards)

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désherber

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to weed

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désherbage à faire

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weeding to do

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croise

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bumps into

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la dalle

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  1. paving stone, flagstone
  2. slab (stone or concrete)
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le peuplier

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poplar (tree)

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un malle

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trunk (for traveling)

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foirer

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(fam): rater, échouer lamentablement, to flop

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pédé

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homosexuel (homme et garçon)

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la barbiche

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  1. goatee
  2. beard (of a goat)
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androgyne

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androgynous

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zébré(e)

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striped, streaked

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taule

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(fam) prison

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faire du taule

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to do time

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trouer

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to make a hole in, to pierce

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pécher

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to sin

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la stèle

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monument,
monolithe qui porte une inscription, des ornements sculptés
Une stèle funéraire

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le moine

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monk

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le mugissement

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  1. lowing, bellowing, mooing
  2. howling (of the wind), roar (of the sea)
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le buit

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box (plant), boxwood

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en émoi

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  1. in a state, all agog
  2. commotion, turmoil
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lueur

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faint light, glimmer, gleam

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bûcher (verb)

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(fam) to plod away at
to keep working
syn: bosser

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bûcher (noun)

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  1. stake, pyre
  2. woodshed
    bonfire ?
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la mélopée

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chant, mélodie monotone et mélancolique

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un échiquier
a chessboard
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léguer
1. to bequeath 2. to pass on
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une moue
pout
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faire la moue
to pout
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créanciers
creditors
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le bouc
1. goat, Billy goat 2. goatee
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le bouc émissaire
scapegoat
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pantois
stunned flabbergasted
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hurluberlu
oddball, crank
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farfelue
hare-brained, wacky
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l’embrayage
clutch (of an automobile)
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caler
1. to wedge, to prop up 2. to fill up (one’s stomach)
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blindée - adj.
armored
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le blindé (noun)
armored vehicle
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la succursale
annexe of a company
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démêler
to disentangle, to untangle
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éconduire
to reject, to dismiss
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aléatoire
1. uncertain, risky 2. random
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la guérite
1. sentry box 2. Fr. workmen’s hut
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flouer
voler qqn en le trompant
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vacillant
1. unsteady, shaky 2. flickering
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un habitacle
a cockpit
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ankyloser
to stiffen (up) guindé
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revêtement
1. coating, covering, facing 2. surface (of a road)
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vivant
experience
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barbelé (adj)
barbed
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le barbelé (noun)
barbed wire
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navrer
to upset, to distress
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être navré de
to be sorry about
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une quinte de toux
a coughing fit
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déborder
1. to overflow 2. to jut out from, to extend beyond 3. to overwhelm
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bagage de cabine
carry-on
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licence
degree
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inscription
registration
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une attestation
a certificate
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de porte d’embarquement
departure gate
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voie
lane
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gazole
diesel
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receler
to receive (stolen goods) to conceal (a criminal)
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quatrain
strophe de quatre vers le premier quatrain d’un sonnet
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sustenter
se nourrir = se restaurer = to have something to eat
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érudit (e)
scholar
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tulle
tissu léger, formé d’un réseau de mailles ronde ou polygonales
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la maille
1. stitch (in knitting) 2. mesh 3. link (in a chain)
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le mail
mall, promenade
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grassouillet(te)
(syn) potelé pudgy, plump
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bélier
ram, battering ram
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bluffer
to bluff
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érudits
learned
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se déboîta
to dislocate (one’s shoulder, etc)
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bosser
(fam): to work, to slave away
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la marotte
craze, fad
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la nef
nave - central open space of a church
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émoustiller
1. to exhilarate 2. to arrouse, to titillate
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la pèlerin
pilgrim
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énergumène
Madman, lunatic, person possessed syn: agité, fanatique
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olibrius
syn: original phénomène forcené Homme qui se fait fâcheusement remarquer par sa conduite, ses propos bizarres
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penaud
sheepish
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la cale
1. wedge, chock 2. hold (of a ship)
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cale sèche
dry dock
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calé
brainy
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espiègle
mischievous, impish
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le commissariat
police station
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un rouage
cogwheel
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fuite
flight, escape
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maugréer
to grumble syn: grogner
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la toge
gown, robe (of a judge) toga
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parsemer
to sprinkle
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détritus
waste, garbage, litter
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bougre
fam: guy, fellow
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ligoter
to tie up syn: garrotter
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vriller
to bore into, to pierce
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pilier
syn: soutien pillar, column
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quinquagénaire
Person in his or her 50s
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émissaire
outlet