To Kill a Mockingbird - Part III Flashcards

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a pulpit

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une chaire

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a hankering

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un rêve

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grimly

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un air grave

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4
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a raveling

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un effilochage

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5
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snug

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douillet, confortable

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a windowsill

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un rebord de fenêtre

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to scuttle

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fuir, détaler, s’enfuir

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to jab sb.

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donner un petit coup à qn.

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to flutter

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battre des ailes; claquer, flotter (drapeau); palpiter, battre de façon irrégulière

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to trudge

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marcher d’un pas lourd, péniblement, en traînant les pieds

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to barge in

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débarquer, débouler, faire irruption

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asinine

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idiot, bête, stupide; sot (relatif à l’âne)

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to gape

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regarder bouche bée

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to barge in

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débarquer, débouler, faire irruption

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quibbling (making petty objections)

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chicaneur, ergoteur

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a dresser

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une commode, un buffet

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17
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golly

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mince alors

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18
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fishy

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louche, suspect, douteux; qui sent le poisson

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to beckon

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faire signe à qn. d’approcher, appeler

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a stove

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une cuisinière, un réchaud

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teeny

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minuscule, tout petit

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to bawl

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to wane

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diminuer, décliner, décroître

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to unlatch (sth.)

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soulever le loquet de, ouvrir

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to fan (sth.)
attiser, aviver; intensifier, encourager
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a gnat
un moucheron
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to recess
suspendre l'audience
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a recess
une suspension d'audience; une alcôve, un recoin
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a hoodoo
un vaudou; un porte-malheur
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bangs (npl.)
une frange
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to whittle (sth.)
tailler (au couteau); sculpter (statue)
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unfathomable
insondable
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a ripple
une ondulation, une ride; une vague, le clapotis; une ondulation, une boucle (cheveux)
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sternly
sévèrement
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touchous (= touchy)
susceptible; délicat, épineux (sujet)
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to twitch
avoir un mvt. convulsif; tressaillir, tressauter, se contracter (muscle)
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soggy
trempé, détrempé
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mushy
mou, ramolli; bourbeux; très fleur bleue, à l'eau de rose
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a scrape
une éraflure, une égratignure; une écorchure
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a thrift
une économie; une caisse d'épargne
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slushy
fondu (glace, neige); à l'eau de rose
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jim-dandy
chouette
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to hone down
améliorer
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an apron
un tablier
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groggy
groggy, faible; sonné
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tousled
ébouriffé; en pagaille (cheveux)
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shrubbery
massif
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to pester (sb.)
harceler; embêter, ennuyer, importuner, taquiner
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sternness
inflexibilité; sévérité (de visage)
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to grieve (sth.)
pleurer, faire son deuil de
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to rehash
copier, reprendre, remanier, rediscuter
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lineaments
linéaments
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a changeling
un enfant substitué, échangé