Volume 1 Flashcards

(93 cards)

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foisonnant de (adj)

A

teeming with
abundant with

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une culasse

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cylinder head

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un chasepot

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gun of 1870 vintage

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détaler

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to scamper off

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5
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le délabrement

A

decay
dilapidation

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une fosse

une fossé

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pit
ditch
grave

moat
trough
gulf

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refouler

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to force back
repulse
turn away

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une meulière

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millstone

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palabrer

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to palaver
argue endlessly

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bossu (adj)

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hunchback

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puiser

A

draw
attract
pull

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renier

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to renounce
deny

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renié (adj)

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renounced
disowned

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tenir tête à

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to outface

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renfermer

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to contain

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une broutille

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trifle

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esquisser

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to sketch
give a hint

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engoncé (adj)

il était engoncé dans une veste trop étroite

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to be squeezed into

he was squeezed into a tight jacket

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une loutre

A

otter

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20
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un bougre

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bugger
fellow

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contrefaire

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to counterfeit
imitate
disguise

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la vendicte

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condamnation

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un différend

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quarrel
difference of opinion

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alité (adj)

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bedridden

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hargneux (adj)
aggressive ferocious belligerent
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museler
to gag muzzle
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l’obstination (f)
stubbornness persistence
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semer
to sow scatter lose shake off (a pursuer)
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un débarras
junk room
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une garenne
warren
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écorcher
to skin graze fleece (colloq)
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moucher se moucher moucher qn
to snuff trim (a candle) to blow one’s nose to blow sb’s nose (fig) = to put sb in their place
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un gredin
rogue scoundrel
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l’entendement Cela dépasse l’entendement!
understanding It’s beyond belief!
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dépité de (adj)
piqued at
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dépiter
to pique upset disappoint
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égorger
to slit sb’s throat
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déchaîner
unchain
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démuni (adj)
destitute
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démunir
to part with relinquish
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au lever à son lever
upon rising when he rises
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apeuré (adj)
frightened
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apeurer
frighten away
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un buis (s muet)
boxwood tree box
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jusque-là
up to that point so far
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louvoyer
to evade avoid
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entraver
to hinder impede
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assouvir
assuage quench
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une amazone
large tall aggressive woman
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une collecte faire une collecte pour
collection to raise funds for
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un pommeau
knob
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convoiter
to covet lust for
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détrousser
rob
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nonchalant (adj) c’est un nonchalant
indolent he shows no enthusiasm for anything
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le froment
wheat
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une tourte
pie
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un faucon
falcon
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une fente
crack
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altier (adj)
haughty
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insalubre (adjj
unsanitary unclean unhealthy
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la rapin
robbery
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une estafilade
gash
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taillé (adj)
carved
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le tuf
tufa porous limestone
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montant (adj)
rising ascending
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un montant
upright
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une vieille rombière
old bag
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rabaisser
abase belittle
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un ronce
briar thorny bush
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un tilleul
lime tree
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désemparé (adj)
bewildered distraught
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désemparer
to throw sb into confusion
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en marge de
on the fringes of
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désarçonner
to throw (as from a horse) unseat
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le crachin
drizzle
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se dérober
to evade
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une anguille
eel
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menu (adj)
slender small
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aviné (adjj
drunk
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le lierre
ivy
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un nain une naine
dwarf
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cul-de-jatte
person with both legs amputated
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avoir horreur de
to loathe
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boudiné (adj)
podgy
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boudiner sa robe la boudine être boudiné dans qc
to roam her dress shows every bulge to be squeezed into st
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une tenture
curtain drapery
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extasier s’extasier sur/devant
to get excited to go into ecstasy over
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dévêtir
to undress
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l’inefficacité (f)
ineffectiveness inefficiency
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un récipient
container
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tirailler être tiraillé entre
to tug pull to be torn between
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être sur le qui-vive
on the alert
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survolter
to boost work up