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1
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une masure

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hovel

hut

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blêmir

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to pale

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grincer

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creak

squeak

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entamer

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to start

broach

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un râteau

se prendre un râteau

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rake

to face a rebuttal

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à l’encontre de

à mon encontre

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to go against

against me

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un rock

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rock music

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endiablé (adj)

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red-hot
boisterous
sexy

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la boullie

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mug

face

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flétrir

se flétrir

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to wither

fade

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assoupir

s’assoupir

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make drowsy

to doze off

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sous vide

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vacuum packed

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au bout d’un an

j’ai une trentaine d’années

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after a year

I am in my thirties

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pioncer

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to kip

nap

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en compte

fenêtres…qui en compte peut-être vingt

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which counted
which included

windows…which counted maybe twenty

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être avide de (adj)

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to be eager for

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le bas-ventre

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groin

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un croc

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fang

hook

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humer

humer l’odeur des roses

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sniff
smell

smell the roses

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en faction

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on guard

on duty

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une bicoque

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shack

dump

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une sensibilité à fleur de peau

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hypersensitivity
touchy

note: la fleur de peau = surface of the skin

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en définitive

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when all is said and done
in the end

enfin

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fulgurant (adj)

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explosive

meteoric

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une percée
opening | breakthrough
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un ravisseur
kidnapper | abductor
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une besace
pouch | sack
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un vagissement
wail
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tant bien que mal
one way or another
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la félicité
bliss
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à tous les coups
every time
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une licorne
unicorn
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une boniche de service
handmaiden
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la scories
slag
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la glaise
clay
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une épave
wreck
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crochu (adj)
hooked
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l’outrecuidance
insolence | impertinence
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rocambolesque (adj)
fantastic
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bluffer
to bluff
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ringard (adj)
tasteless (derogatory) | dated
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un forcené | une forcenée
maniac
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une orée
edge | boundary
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chelous (adj)
suspicious | out of place
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gazer
to gas
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en terminale
upper sixth | = grade 12
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le brevet de collèges brevet de pilote
GCSE General certificate secondary education pilot’s licence
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désuet (adj) | désuète
outmoded
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un train de vie
lifestyle
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enjoué (adj)
cheerful
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avec excès
in excess
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la déchéance
decline degradation forfeiture of rights dégradation
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disséquer
to dissect
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l’auriculaire (m)
little finger
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un moignon
stump (of a limb, tree)
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l’épouvante (f)
terror
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épouvanter
to terrify
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un bâillon
gag
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un soc
blade of a plow | plowshare
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acéré (adj)
sharp (lit and fig) cutting acerbic
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sot, sotte (adj)
foolish
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un sot | une sotte
fool
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l’acharnement (m)
fierceness | doggedness
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marquer le coup
to mark the occasion
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le désarroi
helplessness confusion disarray
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confondant (adj)
confounding
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un clébard
dog
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un bourrelet
roll of flesh roll of material draught excluder
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une excroissance
outgrowth | misgrowth
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la saloperie
filth dirty trick fucking (slang)
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un brocanteur
pawn shop owner | used goods dealer
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un juge d'instruction
examining magistrate
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une collerette
ruffle (eg, at the neck) | flange
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clipser
to clip
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funeste (adj)
fateful | fatal
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déglinguer
to destroy
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narguer
to taunt
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chialer
to blubber
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une écharde
splinter
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costaud (adj)
strong
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la garde
custody
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épater
to impress | amaze
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l’espièglerie (f)
mischievousness
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le ressac
backwash | surf
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une bouée
buoy | flotation device
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débile (adj)
feeble-minded | mad
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la glaire
mucus | egg white
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un piolet
ice axe | pick
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un store
blind | shade

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