Volume 1 Flashcards

(92 cards)

1
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un mardi de mai

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one Tuesday in May

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humilier

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to humiliate

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désemparé (adj)

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disoriented

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boucher un trou

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close a hole

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5
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un toboggan

A

slide (playground)

sled
luge

overpass

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vacataire (adj)

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temporary

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cautériser

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to cauterize

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8
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réagir en adulte

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react as an adult

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emporter un secret dans la tombe

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to take a secret to one’s grave

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esquisser

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to sketch

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facturer

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to invoice

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dédommager

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to compensate

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transparaître

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to show through

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mordant (adj)

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biting

caustic

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en demande

demandé

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in demand

requested

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16
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écorcher

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to skin

graze

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aliter

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to take to one’s bed

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18
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le désarroi

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distress

trouble

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19
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couver

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to brood

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20
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donner du mal

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to go to a lot of trouble

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21
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être remercié

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to be dismissed

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22
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un mécène

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patron of the arts

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23
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le chaînon manquant

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missing link

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s’évertuer

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to try one’s best

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emménager avec
to move in with
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un humour à froid
dry humour
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édenté (adj)
missing teeth
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un hobbit
hobbit
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être pour rire
to be funny
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un rescapé | une rescapée
survivor
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à quel point
how much | to what extent
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disparate = hétéroclite (adj)
disparate | varied in type
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gangrener se gangrener
to corrupt become corrupt
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un tirage
draw lottery print (photo) conflict
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un fer à cheval
horseshoe
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les favoris (mp)
sideburns
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pencher pour qc
to lean towards st | favour
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un minet | une minette
kitten pretty boy (colloq)
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frivole (adj)
frivolous
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saigner à blanc (fig)
to bleed dry
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un point de chute
jumping off point
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l’affolement
panic
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une malaise cardiaque
mild heart attack
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les brûlures d’estomac (f)
heartburn
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le cocooning
cocooning
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un/une pigiste
freelance journalist typesetter on piece work
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un rouquin | une rouquine
red head
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suranné (adj)
outdated | outmoded
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être sûr(e) de comprendre
to be sure that one understands
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fendre
to cleave | split
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gracile (adj)
slender delicate fragile
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un bonimenteur | une bonimenteuse
smooth talker
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limbes (mp)
ill defined place | “depths”
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un voiturier
valet
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la bedaine
large belly
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las (adj) | lasse
weary
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dépérisser
to waste away | wither
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dérouter
to change destination disconcert
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le trajet
leg of a trip | prognosis of a malady
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la motricité
motivity | ability to move
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la mobilité
mobility
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le réconfort
consolation
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le soulagement
relief
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s’obstiner à
to persist to
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la détestation
loathing
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une allée dallée
paved footpath
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un largage aérien
air drop larguer = to drop, launch
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de fortune (adj)
makeshift
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retrousser
to roll up
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une serpette
pruning knife
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accoster
to accost to come alongside (naut)
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le surlendemain
day after tomorrow
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faner
to fade | wither
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l’obséquiosité
obsequiousness
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frisant qc frisant l’obséquiosité
bordering on qc bordering on obsequiousness
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ingérer s’ingérer dans
to ingest to interfere in meddle in
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une recrue
recruit
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un coup de boule
head-butt
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desservir
``` to service (eg, with utilities) to serve to … ```
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un/une standardiste
switchboard operator
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pourvoir
to provide | supply
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un baume mis un baume au coeur
balme gladden the heart cheer up
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exaucer
to grant
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par contrecoup
as a result | consequently
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un fourmillement de les fourmillements
swarm of (grouillement) tingling sensation (picotement)
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égarer
to mislead | lose direction
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une supplique
plea
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un muret
low wall
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un réverbère
street light
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un taudis
hovel | slum
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la tôle
sheet metal
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un parpaing
breeze block