Volume 1 Flashcards

(131 cards)

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l’appartenance (f)

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belonging, membership

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proliférer

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to proliferate

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la débrouillardise

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resourcefulness

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édenté (adj)

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toothless

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la maigreur

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thinness

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un rabatteur

une rabatteuse

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beater

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l’affaissement (m)

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sagging, subsidence

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l’entaille (f)

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cut, gash

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gésir

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to be lying (as on a bed)

to be lying about (as in strewn)

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crisper

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to grip

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posément (adv)

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thoughtfully

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un aveu

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an admission

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un sosie

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double, stand-in

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un enlèvement

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abduction, kidnapping

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un relevé

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a summary

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tapageur (adj)

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flashy

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démentir

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to refute

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débridé (adj)

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unbridled

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mordiller

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to nibble

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une plate-bande

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flowerbed, fig: territory

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subventionner

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to subsidize, support

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une lubie

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a whim

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un troc

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an exchange, swap

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renchérir sur

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to add, enrich
to go further (with an idea or action)
to raise (a bet)

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aplanir s'aplanir
to smooth over, iron out to be iron out
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un dépit
a disappointment | spite
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invraisemblable (adj)
incredible
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la tractation
negotiation, dealing
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l'assentiment (m)
assent, approval
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la tracasserie
harassment, annoyance
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l'affolement (m)
panic
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impassible (adj)
imperturbable, stolid
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fouiller
to search, rummage through
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le gâchis
mess, waste
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un accroc
an infraction
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la mise au point
refinement
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transi (adj)
chilled, frozen
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la cruauté
cruelty, barbarism
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primordial (adj)
paramount
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la nappe phréatique
ground water
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un affaisement
subsidence
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une quarantaine
about 40
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une rixe
a brawl
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faucher
to mow | to mow down
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la sape le travail de sape
sap, juice of a plant sabotage
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saper
undermine, sap
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éclabousser avec éclabousser de
to splash with to splatter with
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fracasser se fracasser
to smash, shatter to crash
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une civière
stretcher
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un forcené | une forcenée
maniac
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paisible (adj)
peaceful, serene
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raidir
to stiffen
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gruger
to dupe
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secouer
to shake up, to jolt
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un préalble préalble (adj)
a precondition preliminary
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un écriteau
a sign
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un emballement
packaging rapid rise, bolting
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à son insu
without him/her knowing
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le ressentiment
resentment
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se soigner
to treat oneself (for a malady) | to be treatable
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étiqueter
to label
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survenir
to happen | to arise unexpectedly
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un cinglé
a nutter
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sous peu
shortly
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bégayer
to stammer
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tricher
to cheat, swindle
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un badaud | une badaude
onlooker
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les mondanités (fp)
society events
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accaparer
to monopolize | to preoccupy
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embourber s'embourber
to get stuck in the mud to get bogged down
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un/une routard
a hitchhiker, backpacker, traveller
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l'appui (m)
support, encouragement
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un creux
a hollow
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disposer de
to have | to use
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une giclée
a squirt
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emplir
to fill | to dismay
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un engrenge
gears
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épauler s'épauler
to support, help to help each other
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un rapprochement
connection
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bourru (adj)
gruff
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percutant (adj)
foreceful
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sursauter
to jump, to startle
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la rocaille
loose stones, stony ground
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rocailleux (adj)
rocky, stony, rugged
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se prononcer
to declare | to state a position
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une pieuvre
an octopus
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une murène
an moray eel
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rauque (adj)
husky, hoarse
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l'escalade (f)
escalation | climbing
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une pendaison
a hanging
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l'essentiel (m)
the main thing | gist
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rivaliser
to compete | to vie with
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un refus de...
a refusal to...
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reprêcher
to recover (a body)
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réclamer
to demand
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une bavure
a smear
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un levier
a lever
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inespéré (adj)
unexpected
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globalement
overall
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tiquer
to wince
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feutré (adj)
felted | muffled
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scrupuleusement
scrupulously
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déconseiller
to advise against
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éminemment
eminently
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souhaitable (adj)
desirable | to be wished for
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momentanément
momentarily
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s'extérioriser
to show oneself
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agresser
to attack
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les magouilles (fp)
trickery, scheming
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troquer
to barter, exchange
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la haie (note no liason)
hedge
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la une (note no contraction)
the front page
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l'aménagement
development construction arrangment
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paysager (adj)
environmental | landscasped
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embraser
to set ablaze
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les décombres (mp)
rubble
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le bourbier
quagmire
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déplier
to unfold
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maléfique (adj)
evil, malicious
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l'attente (f)
wait
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souler se souler
to get someone drunk to get drunk
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désavouer
to disavow
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astiquer
to polish
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un moine
a monk, friar
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enfourcher
to mount (a horse, a motorcycle)
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éveiller
awaken (from sleep)
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le cinéaste
film-maker
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apprivoisier
to domesticate, tame
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insaissisable (adj)
elusive
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le dénommé Pierre
by the name of Pierre
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un éternuement
a sneeze