Vocabulary 10 Flashcards

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aigre (agj)

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sharp, acrimonious, sour

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aigrir (vt)

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to sour, embitter

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croitre (vi)

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to grow

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ruser (vi)

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to use cunning

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roder

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to break in (as a new engine)

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un débouché

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an opening, a market

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gourmand (adj)

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greedy

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débarquer

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to unload, land, disembark

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décréter

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to decree

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heurter à

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to collide with, offend

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l’acharnement (m)

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fierceness, ruthlessness, stubborness

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borner

se borner à faire

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to restrict, mark off

to limit oneself to

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un détenteur
une détentrice

un détenteur d’un passeport allemand

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holder

a holder of a German passport

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une dague

une dague de poing

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a dagger

a fist dagger

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dérobé (adj)

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hidden, secret

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dérober

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to steal, purloin, snatch

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soustraire

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to subtract, remove

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l’appui (m)

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support, encouragement

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le tapage

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uproar, ruckless

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médiatique (adj)

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to do with the media

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un atout

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an asset

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officiellement

officieusement

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officially

unofficially

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railleur (adj)

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mocking

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railleusement

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mockingly

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la saisie
siezure, capture
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l'écart (m) à l'écart Ils se promenent dans le jardin à l'écart.
a gap, distance isolated The are walking in the garden off by themselves.
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un virement
a transfer, exchange (of goods, funds)
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un bordereau
a docket, a contract, a form, a list
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prélever
to withdraw
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déduire
to deduct
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héler
to hail, to call out
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un rentier | une rentière
person of independant means
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s'avérer Le téléphone s'etait avéré un outil indispensable.
to prove to be The telephone has proved to be an indispensible tool.
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provisoire (adj)
interim, provisional
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attardé (adj)
retarded
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prêcher
to preach
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se servir
to help oneself
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débusquer (vt)
to flush out (cause to break cover)
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dépayser
to disorient, confuse
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l'imprévu (m)
the unexpected
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inopiné (adj)
unexpected
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supprimer
to eliminate, abolish, suppress
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biaiser
to distort, avoid, hedge against something
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dérangeant (adj)
unpalatable, disturbing
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recoupement
cross-check
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dorloter (vt)
to pamper
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un perroquet
parrot
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en provenance de
coming from
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À défaut de...
Failing to...
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le saignement
bleeding
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l'immatriculation (f)
registration
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un répit
a respite
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entrebâiller
to half open
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un entrebâillement de...
a gap in...
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gifler (vt)
to slap, humiliate
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décaler (vt)
to shift
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décommander
to call off, cancel
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rattraper
to recapture | to make up (for something)
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largement (adv)
widely, amply
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douter | se douter
to doubt, question | to suspect
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consciemment
consiously, knowingly
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l'avènement (m)
accession (to the throne, to an afterlife)
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lointain
remote, faraway
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une retrouvaille
a reunion
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bredouiller
to mumble, stutter
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un rôdeur
prowler
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la crispation
tension, contortion, wince
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aiguiser
to sharpen, grind, hone
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la fonte à la fonte des neiges
melting, smelting, casting when the snow melts
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assecher s'assecher
to drain, dry to dry out
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prémunir se prémunir
to provide, to protect to protect oneself
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l'aube (f) à l'aube des années 2000.
dawn, daybreak in the early 2000's
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atterrir
to land (an airplane)
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accidenté
bumpy (pertaining to a road surface)
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une planche à laver
a washboard
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escarpé
steep (road)
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rocailleux (adj)
rocky (road)
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rapeux
rough
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rugueux
rough
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compliqué un tâche compliquée
complicated, difficult a complicated task
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composé
complicated
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complexité (?)
complexity
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une pente être sur la mauvaise pente être sur une pente savonneuse
slope to be on a slippery slope
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savonneux (adj)
soapy
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marré (adj) J'étais bien marré.
funny It was funny to me.
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à la place de Je pourrais parler à la place des personnages.
in place of I could speak in place of the actors.
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en parallèle
at the same time | in parallel
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le procès Il était en procès contra l'organization quand il a été tuer.
lawsuit He was suing the organization when he was killed.
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créant une dépendance (adj phrase) | être comme une drogue (fig)
addictive
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la fumée
smoke
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booster
to boost
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résultat Résultat j'ai plus de temps pour travailler. beau résultat! avoir pour résultat de faire
result resulting in the fact that Resulting in the fact that I have more time to work great work! to have the effect of doing
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la cuvette la cuvette océanique
bowl, basin, valley deep ocean floor
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ravaler
lower restore swallow
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enduire de
to coat with
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le cyanure
cyanide
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susceptible de
likely to
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placé (adj)
placed
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qui que ce soit
anyone
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un sous-fifre
``` an underling (colloquial) a side-kick ```
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à jour
up to date
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peut-être que
perhaps
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sidérer (colloquial)
to stagger, astonish
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de surcroît
moreover