Volume 1 Flashcards

(91 cards)

1
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démanger

A

to itch

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un binôme

travailler en binôme

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binomial
pair

to work in pairs

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la nervosité

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nervousness

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le luage

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act of renting

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pimpant (adj)

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dashing

dapper

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tirer sa révérence

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to take one’s leave

pass on

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érafler

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to scratch

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éraflé (adj)

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scratched

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se tasser

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to settle
sort out
shrink

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laïque (adj)

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secular

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rembourré (adj)

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padded

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tenir le coup

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to cope (with a difficult situation)

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râblé (adj)

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stocky

broad-backed

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gominé (adj)

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slicked down (eg. hair)

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se gominer

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to apply hair cream

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la visée

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aim

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la poisse

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bad luck

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éberluer

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to astound

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éberlué (adj)

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flabbergasted

astounded

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froufrouter

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to swish

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21
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Bigre!

A

Blimey!

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22
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l’omoplate (f)

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shoulder blade

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un béguin

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bonnet

crush ( pour qn)

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une égratignure

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scratch

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un tonneau
barrel | roll-over (in a crash)
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une herboristerie
herbalist’s shop
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charbonneux (adj)
sooty
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un cadre dirigeant
executive
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intenter intenter un procès
institute initiate a lawsuit
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le rien du tout
nothing at all
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certains
some
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un sweat
sweatshirt
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soulever de la fonte
pump iron
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un licencié | une licenciée
graduate
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dégingandé (adj)
lanky
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une matraque
truncheon | cosh
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caler
to prop up | stall
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gober
to believe (a ploy) take the bait fall for
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louper
``` to miss (sb/st) screw up ```
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se vautre se vautre sur se vautre dans
wallow sprawl on wallow in
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un caddie
shopping cart
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un malaise
faintness | discomfort
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malaisé (adj)
difficult
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un réverbère
street lamp
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le mal-être
ill-being
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voûter
to bend | arch
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se voûter
to become stooped
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la saloperie saloperie de télévision saloperie de boulot
filth rubbish muck fucking tv fucking job
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une pagaille Quelle pagaille!
mess What a mess!
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la manie
mania | obsession
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cafter
to snitch
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sécher
to dry st | skip class
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un brouillon cahier de bouillon papier brouillon papier de brouillon
first draft notebook rough paper scrap paper
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chatouilleux (adj)
touchy ticklish over-sensitive
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une ornière sortir de l’ornière
rut to get out of a rut
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exécuter
execute | perform
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s’exécuter
to comply
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la sciure
sawdust
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un dédale
maze
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sonné (adj)
groggy
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bien sonner il a quarante ans bien sonnés
to have a ring to it to ring true He’s well into his forties.
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un teinturier | une teinturière
dry cleaner
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poignet veuve poignet
wrist masturbation
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dévaliser
to rob burgle ransack rip off
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ramollir se ramollir
to soften to go soft
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un glaçon servir avec des glaçons
ice ice cube icicle serve with ice
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retenue (adj) à la retenue
reserved held back restrained reserved
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la guigne avoir la guigne
bad luck to be jinxed
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une main courante
daybook | handrail
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éclabousser
to splash
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gâteux (adj)
senile
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flâner
to stroll
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éberluer
to astound
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déguerpir
to clear off | skedaddle
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ourler
to hem
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une aspérité
bump harshness unevenness
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une bâtisse
building
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énormément énormément de
enormously a great deal of
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un bardeau
shingle | clapboard
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pétiller
fizz (drink) sparkle (eyes) glisten (stone, metal) crackle (die)
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fendiller se fendiller
to crack craze to become: cracked crazed chapped
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rosser
to thrash | beat up
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ramollir
to soften weaken slow down
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un office office du tourisme
office service (church) tourist office
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contempler
to contemplate
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la varicelle
chickenpox
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renifler
to sniff
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un grondement
rumble (thunder, canon, motor) | growl (animal)
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en personne
in person
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briefer
to brief
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le greffier
clerk of the court