Volume 1 Flashcards

(115 cards)

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de l’avis general

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by all accounts

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un excompte

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discount

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un chuintement

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hiss, lisp

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les babines (f)

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lips

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5
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un préau

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covered playground

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souiller

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to spoil, defile

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un furoncle

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boil (on the skin)

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la sanie

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pus

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l’aine (f)

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groin

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une grosseur

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lump, cyst

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avoir l’air déconfit

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to look downcast, crestfallen

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un dépuratif

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cleanser, purgative

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la fongosité

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fungosity (fungal disease)

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tapisser

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to cover (with fabric)

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s’ingénier à faire

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to try one’s utmost to do

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une lorgnette

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lens or a pair of lenses held by a stick

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l’aiguillage

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switching (eg. railway)

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un piston

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piston, cornet à pistons (valves)

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dominicale (adj)

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on Sunday

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20
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un édile

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town councillor

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21
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inguinal (adj)

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of the groin

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l’apparence (f)

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appearance

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crépir

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to render (plaster)

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les bronches (f)

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bronchia

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déraisonnable
irrational, unreasonable
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la déraison
madness
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un rayon
ray, shelf
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estomper
to make blurry, shade off
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suppurer
to supperate, produce pus
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tempéré (adj)
temporate
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dépourvu (adj)
devoid of
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au dépouvu
by surprise
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partagé entre
to be torn between
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la bêtise
supidity
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modeste (adj)
modest, humble
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l'écoeurement (fix)
nausea, disgust
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les bubons
swollen lymph nodes
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hideux (adj)
hideous
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un mendiant
beggar
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la sobriété
temperance, frugality
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provisoire (adj)
temporary, provisional
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avoir la hardiesse de faire
to have the courage to do
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la dératisation
pest control
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la marelle
hopscotch
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désaffecter
to decommission, close down
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calfeutrer
to weal (eg weather stripping)
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environnant (adj)
surrounding
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transvaser
to decant
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transiger
to compromise
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aboucher
to abut, place end to end
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s'aboucher
to be joined end to end
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livré (adj)
abandoned, left (also delivered)
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supputer
to judge, evaluate
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astreindre
to oblige, require of sb
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indigner
to make indignant
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l'asserissement
subjugation
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imprévu
unforeseen, unexpected
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à plat sur
flat on
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nègre (adj, noun)
black, negro
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buté (adj)
stubborn
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bouder
to sulk
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se magner
to hurry
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se grouiller
to hurry
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s'activer
to get going
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faire vite
to hurry
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le taf
work
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tendancieux (adj)
biased
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l'abstraction
absent mindedness
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la recrudescence
increase
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un prêche
sermon
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fougueux (adj)
spirited
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une chaire
pulpit
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de proche en proche
gradually
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un épieu
spear
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les semailles (fp)
sowing of seeds
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la moisson
harvest
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la miséricorde
pardon, mercy
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le language
language
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la claustration
confinement
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rasséréner
to reassure
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une rature
crossing out
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une tirette
pull tab
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de loin en loin
here and there
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un martinet
swallow-like bird
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grêle (adj)
thin, reedy (in body or voice)
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émietter
to crumble
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effréné (adj)
frantic
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crouler
to collapse
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jacasser
to chatter
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ailleurs que
other than
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vertu ou vice
virtue or vice
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un chantre
eulogist
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un génitif
genitive case (eg noun modifying another noun)
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fâcheux
regrettable
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monotone (adj)
monotone (voice, monotonous
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un remue-ménage
stir, commotion
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un nabot
dwarf, short person
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une buvette
refreshment stand, pump room (thermal station)
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revaloir
to get even, return the favour
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périmer
to make obsolete
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un rentier
person of independent means, landlord
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les psalmodies
chants
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en sourdine
muted
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à longeur de
all
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forcené (adj)
insane
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une baladeuse
portable lamp
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un baladeur
walkman (or similar)
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nnon que
not that
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infime (adj)
tiny
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inopinément
unexpectedly
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la longanimité
long suffering
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un étouneau
starling, scatterbrain
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une grive
thrush
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un piétinement
shuffling of feet, lack of progress
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depuis peu
recently