Vocabulary 4 Flashcards

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l’apaisement (m)

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appeasement, calming down

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bifurquer

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to fork, branch off

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déchirant (adj)

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heart-rending (déchirer = to tear apart)

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un répit

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a respite

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révélateur (adj)

révélatrice

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revealing

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la fuite

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flight, escape, leak

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gênant (adj)

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annoying

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détailler

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to detail

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une ébauche

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a preliminary sketch, a beginning

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inachevé (adj)

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unfinished

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un revirement

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a flip-flop

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le casier

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locker (school)

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à la une de journal

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on the front page

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terne (adj)

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drab

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régler

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to settle (a debt)
to arrange
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un admirateur

une admiratrice

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an admirer

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Tel est pris qui croyait prendre!

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How the table has turned.

Lit: So is taken who believed to take.

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déduire

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to deduce

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un décret

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a decree

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l’injonction (f)

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injunction

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dans la foulée

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at the same time

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outrepasser

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to exceed, overreach

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violer

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to rape

to violate

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plaider

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to plead

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viser
to aim at
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aboutir à
to succeed in
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faramineux (informal adj)
colossal
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dévastateur (adj) | dévastatrice
devastating
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divers
various
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entraîner
to lead to
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entraînant (adj)
leading to
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un décès
a death
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quasiment
practically
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un bienfait
a kindness, kind deed
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le diabète
diabetes
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le surpoids
the condition of being overweight
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une fatalité
an inevitability
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oeuvre Nous mettons tout en oeuvre pour éliminer le diabète.
to work We are putting everything we've got (lit: all to work) to eliminate diabetes.
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l'apport (m) Cette quantité dépasse largement l'apport maximal quotidien recommandé du sucre.
input, contribution This amount widely exceeds the recommended daily maximum intake of sugar.
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néfaste à (adj)
harmful to
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nuisible (adj)
harmful
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abordable (adj)
affordable
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préconiser
to recommend
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préconisé (adj)
recommended
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bénéfique (adj)
beneficial
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sensibiliser
to make aware
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transformer
to alter, modify
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transformé (adj)
altered
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envisager
to foresee
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un revers
reversal
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juridique
judicial
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s'adresser
to speak
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recourir à
recourse to
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édicter
to enact by edict
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une titulaire les titulaires d'une carte verte
a holder (of some document) green card holders
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un volte-face
an about-face
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gâcher
to spoil, throw away
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ponctuer | ponctuer de
to punctuate | to puctuate with
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une énumération
a listing
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écouerant (adj)
sickening
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supprimer
to remove
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malhonnête (adj)
dishonest
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un partisan | une partisane
supporter
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se battre pour Nous allons nous battre pour nos emplois.
to fight for We are going to fight for our jobs.
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scander
to scan | to chant
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rétorquer
to retort
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évoquer
to mention, recall
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susciter
to give rise to
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relayer
``` to relieve to relay (a transmission) ```
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en état d'ébriété
in an intoxicated state
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un propos
a remark
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incontournable
unavoidable
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enliser dans
to get stuck in (snow, mud...)
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un cafouillage (colloquial)
screw up
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coincer
to hinder, pin | to get stuck
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coincé (adj) ils ont été coincés pendant douze heures dans leurs voitures.
to be stuck They were stuck in their cars for 12 hours.
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survenir | survenir à
to happen | to befall, as if by fate
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survenu (adj) la tempête survenue cette semaine
happening the storm happening this week
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la poursuite
lawsuit
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un inconfort
a discomfort
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s'être produit Qu'est-ce que s'est produit?
to happen, to take place What happened?
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nier
to deny
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la ingérence
interference
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démentir
to refute
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ingérer
to ingest
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s'ingérer
to interfere
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pirater
to rob, hack, pirate
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bel et beau
well and truly
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infirmer Le FBI n'a ni confirmé ni infirmé...
deny The FBi has neither confirmed nor denied...
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l'audience (f)
audience, hearing
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attendu (adj)
expected
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la montée
ascent, rise
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être patient avec...
be patient with...
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avant de + infinitive Réfléchissez avant d'agir
before Think before acting.
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ponctuel (adj)
punctual
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un compte rendu
a report
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un galon gagner ses galons
stripe to earn ones stripes
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censé (adj)
supposed
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l'asile (m)
asylum
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attiser
to fuel, stir up