Vocabulaire Flashcards
(38 cards)
1
Q
les eaux usées
A
wastewater
2
Q
un estivant
A
summer holidaymaker
3
Q
un dispositif (alternative meaning)
A
measures / a plan
4
Q
le geste citoyen
A
civic gesture
5
Q
un prescripteur
A
redevelopment body
6
Q
la raréfaction (2)
A
1) increasing scarcity 2) rarefaction (reduction in density)
7
Q
une énergie « flux »
A
renewable and inexhaustible energy that is in constant flow
8
Q
la pénurie
A
shortage
9
Q
approcher (2)
A
1) get close (to) 2) approach
10
Q
lesté(e)
A
weighted down
11
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un haltère (3)
A
weight /dumbbell/barbell
12
Q
reculé
A
isolated / remote
13
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s’en passer
A
don’t need it anymore (could do without it)
14
Q
la braise
A
ember
15
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frotter
A
rub
16
Q
ado
A
teen
17
Q
la Saint-Sylvestre
A
New Year’s Eve
18
Q
le grain
A
seed (NOT “graine”)
19
Q
le berceau
A
cradle
20
Q
la farce
A
prank
21
Q
s’élargir
A
widen
22
Q
la bonne chère
A
good fare
23
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la bienséance
A
good manners
24
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le savoir-vivre
A
etiquette
25
saucer
mop up/sop up sauce from a plate (with bread, for ex.)
26
la gage (3)
1) pledge/guarantee 2) penalty 3) token (evidence)
27
le trait d’union
intermediary
28
l'accent circonflexe
Ê, â, ô, î et û
29
la graphie
written form
30
quand même (4)
1) all the same 2) still 3) anyway/anyhow 4) even so
31
chevalier/chevaleresse
fellow (alternative meaning)
32
un exploit
a feat
33
obscur(e) (2)
1) dark 2) gloomy
34
étant donné que
given that
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on the condition that
à condition que
36
in the case that
au cas où
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cependant (?)
1) yet 2) nevertheless/nonetheless 3) however/even so
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pourtant (?)
1) yet 2) however
