Random Vocab

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To rip off

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Arnaquer

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Distressing, upsetting

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Navrant (adj) (c’est une situation navrante)

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A brat

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Un morveux

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The sway of a boat caused when waves strike the side of the ship (pitch)

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Tanguer

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Without stop (adv)

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Inlassablement

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To be in costume

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Être en costard

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A small child (familier)

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Môme

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To be hungry (familier)

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Avoir la dalle

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Abée pierre

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Une prêtre français, fondateur du mouvement Emmaüs, une association caritative qui aide les personnes défavorisées.

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Recommencer/ to start over (familier)

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Remettre le couvert

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Pip in fruit

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Pépin

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Woes

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Les maux (masculin)

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Bark

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Une écorce

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To hide (familier)

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Se planquer

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Melancholic state

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Le vague à l’âme

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Mourning

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Deuil

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To be in mourning

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Être en deuil

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Police force specialising in the containment of manifestations

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CRS (compagnie républicaine de sécurité)

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A Beehive

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Une Ruche

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To row (boat)/ to struggle (familier)

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Ramer

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To clear land

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Défricher

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Feverish

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Fébrile

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Procession (especially funerals)

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un cortège

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Dunce

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Cancre

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Sticky

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Poisseux

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sheepish

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penaud

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procrastinate

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remettre à plus tard / atermoyer / procrastiner

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at full speed

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à fond les manettes

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dotted with

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parsemé (eg. une mer parsemée d'icebergs)

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a blindfold

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un bandeau

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bumblebee

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un bourdon

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other word for supermarkets

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les grandes surfaces

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riots

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les émeutes

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bleach

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la javel

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Years past

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Naguère (l’école de naguère)

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Announcement (not common version used with wedding/ birth)

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Le faire-part