Volume 1 Flashcards

(111 cards)

1
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endiguer

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hold back, stem

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une pendule

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pendulum

clock

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déroger à

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to infringe on
to depart from
to ignore

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la manchette

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cuff (shirt)

headline (media)

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fripé (adj)

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wrinkled, crumpled

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friper

se friper

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to crumple

to crease, crumple

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un/une quadragénaire

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a person in their 40’s

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toiser

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to eye someone up and down

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une toise

passer à la toise

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a measure ( ~ 6 1/2 feet)

to be measured

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un géniteur

une génitrice

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parent

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une progéniture

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offspring

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ensorceler

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to bewitch, enchant, enthrall

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dénouer

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to loosen, untie

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une chicane

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quibble

zigzag

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un juron

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a swearword, curse, profanity

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jamais plus

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never again

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avoir la tête ailleurs

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to be thinking of something else

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un rebondissement

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new development

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souiller

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to soil, contaminate, defile

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un préservatif

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condom

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étreindre

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to embrace, hug

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jucher sur

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to perch on

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en pleurs

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in tears

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quant à

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with regards to

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inné (adj)
inborn
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intimer
to intimate, tell
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une fossette
dimple
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les décombres (mp)
rubble
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une pelleteuse
excavator scoop
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trinquer
to clink glasses
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franquette (adv) C'est à la bonne franquette. (colloquial)
simply, without fuss It's just an informal meal.
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gâté (adj)
spoiled, pampered
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ronger
gnaw
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un burin
a chisel
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une boussole
compass
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un périple
trek, journey
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salaud (adj) (slang)
filthy, dirty, lousy, mean
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un salaud (derogatory slang)
contempible bastard
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vrombir
to rev up an engine
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une agente de bord
stewardess
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le tableau de bord
dashboard, instrument panel
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affoler
to panic, be overcome with extreme fright
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la tôle
sheet metal
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décatir
to become decrepit
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décati
decrepit
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enjamber
to step over
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pis (adj)
even worse
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une cenne
a valuable
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un plombage
a filling (dental)
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un bol un bol de café un coup de bol avoir du bol un bol d'air (idiom)
a bowl a bowl of coffee a stroke of good luck to be lucky a breath of fresh air
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quétaine (adj) (Québecois)
cheesy, tacky
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le ronronnement
drone, purring (of traffic, for example)
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caniculaire (adj)
scorching derivation: pertains to Sirius in the "Great Dog" constellation, from which we get the "dog days of summer".
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ruisseler ruisseler de sueur ruisseler de lumière
to stream, drip to drip with sweat to flood with light
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un écrin
a box, a jewellry box
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une vergeture
stretch mark
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choir (v) la bobinette cherra
to fall the latch will fall
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accablant (adj)
overwhelming rotten damning
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un goulot boire au goulot goulot d'étranglement
neck, mouth, bottleneck to drink from a bottle bottleneck
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déambuler
to ambulate, wander about
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piller
to pillage
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une comptine
nursery rhyme
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une rafale un vent qui souffle en rafales tirer en rafales
blast, squall, flurry a wind that blows in gusts bursts of gunfire
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dès que
as soon as
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un chèque de voyage
traveller's cheque
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sa fille unique
his/her only daughter
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un débarcadère
landing jetty
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maugréer
to mutter, grumble
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déchiquer
to tear to shreds to mutilate to blow to pieces
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grésiller
to sizzle, crackle
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le calvaire
calvary agony ordeal
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reluquer
to ogle, stare lustily
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le rétroviseur
rear-view mirror
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la garderie
nursery, nursery school, after school minding facility
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palper
to palpate, feel
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une raie
a ray, skate (fish) scratch part (hair)
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une planque Elle dois aller se poster sur la 40, dans sa planque preferée.
hideout, shelter She had to position herself on (route) 40, in her favourite hiding spot.
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contrarié (adj)
annoyed
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en prépa (slang)
pre-university studies
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un/une alcoolo (slang?)
alcoholic
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un carafon
a carafe
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un diabolo menthe
a mint cordial/soda drink
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une sacoche
satchel
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non que
not only
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intimer
to order sb to do st
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recroqueviller se recroqueviller
to curl up to shrivel up
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tituber ils sont sortis du pub en titubant.
to stagger, lurch, sway, totter They staggered out of the pub.
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s'accouder
to lean on one's elbows
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pratiquer à l'ancienne
to do things the old way
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dépérir
to fade away, waste away, languish
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une balayette
short handled brush (whisk?)
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estomaqué (adj)
flabbergasted
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trouer
to dig/make a hole
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exorbité (adj)
bulging, swelling
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receler receler un trésor
to hold stolen goods for someone else (to fence) to contain hidden treasure
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pogner (Quebec slang)
to be found out while wrongdoing
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broncher
react, stumble, respond
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le moteur de recherche
search engine
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grimer
to make oneself up
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une trentaine
about thirty
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rester personne
stay anonymous
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saccadé (adj)
jerky, in fits and starts
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la demande d'amitié
Facebook request to be friends
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une escalade
escalation | climbing
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une pitoune (Quebec) Somewhat perjorative slang
pretty woman
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cinquantaine décoloré
fifty shades of grey (?)
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pester contra qqn/qqc
to curse someone/something
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le fond de teint
makeup, cosmetics
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un manège
merry-go-round
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griffé (clothing) (adj)
designer
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griffer | se griffer
to scratch