Voc 4 Flashcards

1
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Bagou

A

Gab

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2
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Complete range, étendue (musicale par exemple)

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Gamut

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3
Q

Avoid a responsibility

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Shirk a responsibility

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4
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Unfound rumour or story

A

A Canard

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5
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Loyal, reliable, hard-working

A

Stalwart

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6
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Corné

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Dog-eared

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7
Q

Tomber dans les escaliers

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Topple down a flight of stairs

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8
Q

Montre hors de contrôle

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Over-wound clock

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9
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Laziness, indolence, lack of ambition

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Shiftless

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10
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disconcert or confuse (someone).

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Discombobulated

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11
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Agonie

A

Death throws

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12
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En théorie mais pas en pratique

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In view but not in deed

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13
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Être au bon endroit au bon moment

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Happenstance

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14
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Péremptoire, dominateur

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Overbearing

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15
Q

Luire

A

to glisten

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16
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Someone boastful

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A braggart

17
Q

To make someone ​gradually ​stop using something that is ​bad for them

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To wean off somebody of something

18
Q

Mettre en perspective, relativiser

A

To put into perspective

19
Q

Insister sur qqchose

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Emphasize something

20
Q

Accorder la permission

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Grant permission

21
Q

Faire face au public

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To address the audience

22
Q

Estomaqué

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Gobdmacked

23
Q

Captiver l’attention

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To enthral

24
Q

A person supposedly able to see the future

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Soothsaying

25
Q

Showing or expressing content or derision

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Contemptuousness / scornful

26
Q

Volubile

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Voluble

27
Q

Exceedingly idealistic

A

Quixotic