vocabulary Flashcards

(134 cards)

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a swing

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une balançoire

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a procession

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un cortège

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a slope/ hill

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une pente

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4
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a pebble

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un caillou

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5
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to brown (cooking)

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rissoler

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a hearse

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un corbillard

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river/ interminable

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un fleuve

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a find, discovery, treasure

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une trouvaille

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9
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the hay

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le foin

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10
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felt/ a felt-tip pen

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un feutre

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to peck/ nibble at

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picorer

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12
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the hall/ aisle

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le couloir

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13
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a pond

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un étang

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a bellflower (campanula)

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une campanule

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a stump/ family origin

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une souche

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16
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to dig

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creuser

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17
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a tailor

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un tailleur

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18
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a stone

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une pierre

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19
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a vagrant

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un clochard

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20
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a partition

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une cloison

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21
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a small boat

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une barque

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run aground (ship), beached (whale) washed-up (debris) / (figuratively) who wound up

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échoué

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23
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second-hand bookseller

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bouquiniste

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bulging

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bombé

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smooth (voice, manner)
suave
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to bubble
mousser
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scale (fish), fragment
écaille
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to crackle
grésiller
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a light bulb
une ampoule
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a willow tree
un saule
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the sweat
la sueur
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to chew
mâcher
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a bear
un ours
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to glide, soar, daydream
planer
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to rip up
déchirer
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a belt/ waist
un ceinture
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a barn owl
une chouette effraie
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daffodil
une jonquille
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a notebook
un carnet
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the undergrowth
le sous-bois
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a meadow
un pré
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to cover
housser
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to solidify
durcir
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frozen
gelé
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a fallow deer
un daim
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to link
relier
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a scarf
une écharpe
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the sap/ lifeblood
la sève
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the removal/ tearing off
l'arrachement (m)
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a blackbird
un merle
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exasperating
soûlant, saoulant
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to cough
tousser
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panic
affoler
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a trade fair
une foire
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a trap
un piège
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a fox
un renard
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the jaw
la mâchoire
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to rumble/ reprimand
gronder
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a run away
une fugue
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a sparrowhawk
un épervier
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a goose
une oie
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the armour
la cuirasse
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to hurtle down
dévaler
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a hill
une colline
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a hole
un trou
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a squirt
une giclée
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the recovery
la guérison
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to sail/ wander, drift (thoughts)
voguer
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hair (sing.)
la chevelure
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a willow tree
un saule
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an octopus
la pieuvre
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the foliage
le feuillage
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to recount
conter
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a spurt/ gush
un jaillissement
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a paving stone
une dalle
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magical
féerique
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a hammer
un marteau
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the handcuffs
les menottes (f)
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lighting
éclairage
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a cliff
une falaise
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the murder
le meurtre
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a wild rose
un églantier
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a godess
une déesse
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to search
fouiller
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to move aside/ take away/ spread
écarter
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whispering
chuchotement
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to rot
pourrir
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a beam
une poutre
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a crib
un berceau
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a buttock
une fesse
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the spine
l'échine (f)
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the protection
la tutelle
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a pebble
un galet
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to sway/ prance about
dandiner / se dandiner
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a nail (metal) / highlight
un clou
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a leg of lamb
un gigot
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a thumb
un pouce
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charity/ favour
l'aumône (f)
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in all directions
à la ronde
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the chin
le menton
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to submerge/ engulf
engloutir
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to gather
cueillir
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the wisteria
la glycine
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a sense, wave
une onde
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a target
une cible
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a fern
une fougère
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a root
une racine
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a bucket
un seau
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the haze
la brume
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the skull
the crâne
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a skeleton
un squelette
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to wade/ trudge
patauger
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a fairy/ fairyland
une féerie
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to bang
cogner
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a drum
un tambour
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an axe
une hache
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to brush past
frôler
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to flatten
plaquer
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the rust
la rouille
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soûler
make (sb) drunk
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a marble
une bille
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drowning
la noyade
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the steam
la buée
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a fist
un poing
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a cherry tree
un cerisier
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a droplet
une gouttelette
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to elect
élire
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to tense
crisper
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the steel
l'acier (m)
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pagan
païen
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spitefulness/ maliciousness
la méchanceté
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a groom
un palefrenier
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cowardly/ lily-livered
poltron
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to be three sheets to the wind (drunk idiom)
Avoir du vent dans les voiles